At the end of the 19th century are formed two regions with different embroideries, depending on the lifestyle of the population and the characteristics of the national clothing:

 The Western ethnographic area where the main colors are red and pink and the complementary colors are blue, green and yellow. The most often found motifs are from the the flora and the fauna.

In The Eastern ethnographic area prevail the dark colors - dark red, brown, black, purple. The most used motifs are inspired by the flora and some geometric figures.

If you look at any Bulgarian embroidery, you will immediately feel the beauty and the harmony. There are researchers claiming that it represents characters and symbols in which are encoded incredible messages as the Bulgarian women have put their love for the home and the nature. The Bulgarian embroideries were set to bring health, love, fertility and prosperity. They are a symbol of the harmony in the world and the humans.

 Ornaments unique to traditional Bulgarian embroidery are: The tree of life, horses, leaning flowers, animal figures, rooster heads – all this is very typical, as is the kene – a special kind of needle laceused mostly for decorating the clothes themselves – the bodices, the sleeves, the skirts. Traditional Bulgarian embroidery is a wealth of ornaments and colours.

The other important element is the waist-band, black or red, made of woolen fabric. The apron is also woolen, most often red, striped or with multiple woven ornamentation (in some South-western regions). More popular later became the apron decorated with gold threads, used mainly on festive occasions.

The saya female costume was preserved as late as the mid 20th century when it gave way to modern urban clothes of European type.

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The emergence of another type of men's costume - chernodreshna - was part of a country-wide trend of men's clothes becoming darker, particularly  prominent in the period of the Bulgarian Revival. This tendency was the result of the new social, economic, and cultural context. Beginning from the late 18th century till the middle of the 19th century men's clothes were no longer made of white aba (a kind of woollen cloth). They were instead made of black shayak (woollen textile), the pants and outer garment being of different cuts.

The pants, called potouri, are broad, with abundant black braiding decoration. An interesting point is the widespread popular belief that the more folded and pleated the potouri (their bottom in particular), the more well-to-do their owner.

The outer clothes (elek, aba, anteriya) are of straight cut and waist length.

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One of the symbols, which was often include in women's shirts - since the moment when a girl become a damsel till her very late days - was 'The tree of life'.

Other used colors are dark red (family blood), green (nature), blue (sky) and yellow (sun).

Cross-stitch is the key stitch. Embroidery is popular mainly in villages of Sadina, Elhovo and places around Razgrad and Sofia and depending on the region, there are variations in the used colors and type of threads. 

The ornament is called also 'A cosmic tree' or 'A Kabbalah tree' and is associated with the cycles in nature and life (birth, maturity, death) and connects Earth with Heaven (from roots and trunk to the branches and leaves). 

The tree is among the most commonly used botanical symbols in Bulgarian embroidery art.