Pink Soup also known as cold beet soup or šaltibarščiai is a delicious and refreshing Baltic summer soup. It takes on a deep pink hue from a combination of beets and kefir. Read more about the soup that inspired the Pink Soup! hat.

Little Horses is designed with an ancient symbol: twin stalks of grain (Latvian) or twin horses (Lithuanian). It also features a representational horse motif. Read more in the blogpost to learn about this symbol of harvest, bounty, fertility and prosperity.

Today we use the word crossroads metaphorically to indicate a critical point in a person’s life where significant decisions need to be made. In the past, actual crossroads were considered liminal spaces where the physical world met with the supernatural.

In Latvia, the morning star was named Auseklis. In Baltic textiles, he, like the Lithuanian Aušrinė, was also symbolized by an eight-pointed star.