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The Folk Wood Engraving
The folk wood engraving, this art to produce series of icons on paper and symbolic or decorative images, made with ink following models engraved in wood with a chisel or a knife, has been developed in Transylvania since the end of the 17th century or the beginning of the 18th century. In 1776 a guild of painters who paint and print on paper was attested in the villages Ocna Gherlei, Hasdate, Saplac and Silivas. Although less known than the icons on glass, but being sometimes a pattern for the icons, this wood engravings were very known in Transylvania especially in the 19th century, when a true folk school was developed in Hasdate.
The technique of the wood engravings consists first of engraving in pear tree wood and apple tree wood of a pattern. With one oiling, the pattern print clearly 12-15 stamps. The ink for printing was prepared chindrut, carbon black and later the wood engraving could be coloured in any way, thing that made a difference within the same printing number.
The colours used were only four: violet, green, blue and yellow. In most cases, the inscriptions are with Cyrillic letters. The patterns are both with religious and with profane thematic. Sacralization and beautify the peasant homes - that is the role of these images. The wood engravings were put in committed places within the living rooms and they were sanctified regularly by the village priest during the Christening.
The folk wood engravings are exhibited periodically in the rooms for temporary exhibitions.
Visit program
Main Building's Section
Tuesday-Sunday:
9 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday closed.
Ethnographic Park "Romulus Vuia": 1st of May - 31st of October: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. (last entry 4 p.m.), Monday closed. The Park is closed between 1st of November and 30th of April.
Acces: buses - lines 26, 27, 28, 30, 41, "Piata 14 iulie" station