The Transylvanian
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100 years – 100 artefacts

26.08.2022
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The negative made by Romulus Vuia captures the image of Vadu Dobrii village, Bunila, Hunedoara county, Pădureni Land. The cliché was made in 1921. Founded by mountaineers brought to Pădureni Land for “bocșărit” (burning charcoal), the village is located at an altitude of 1000 - 1100 m, in Poiana Ruscă Mountains. It is a village scattered on the smooth tops of the mountains, specific to the
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100 years – 100 artefacts

26.08.2022
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Iele’s scythe   About the female mythical entities regionally called Ielele, Frumoasele, Măiestrele, Rusaliile, etc. the traditional society believed that they are beautiful, invisible, mostly evil girls who fly through the air at night, before the roosters’ crow, beginning with the third week after Easter and until Pentecost. According to popular belief, they can roam “in one night over nine
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100 years – 100 artefacts

19.08.2022
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This week we present to you an artifact often used in peasant homes until nowadays, namely the carpet. Along with mats, carpets and other large textile pieces, the carpets embellished the peasants’ houses, being exhibited or exchanged (with new ones) especially during the holidays. The term “covor” (carpet) was used later instead of “scoarță” (bark) and it refers to covering the walls and homes’
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100 years – 100 artefacts

19.08.2022
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The processing of natural fibers of plant and animal origin within the peasant household was done with relatively simple tools, ensuring the satisfaction of their own needs for clothing and interior textiles. The negative on glass made by Romulus in 1913, in Hățăgel village, Hunedoara county, captures one of the operations preceding weaving: placing the warp on the warp beam (the back one) of the
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100 years – 100 artefacts

13.08.2022
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Hook for gathering spikes   Cultivation of plants, a basic economic activity, along with animal husbandry, was primarily oriented in Transylvania, until the beginning of the 20th century, towards ensuring family subsistence, which led to the late preservation until of some archaic, traditional tools and techniques. The functional types of agricultural tools were intended for cultivating the land
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100 years – 100 artefacts

09.08.2022
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  In the villages of Mountain Banat, the distillation of alcoholic beverages (locally known as “roasted brandy”/“răchie profriptă) was a community event, where the villagers pleasantly combined work with cheerfulness, in an atmosphere of good mood. In the village communities, obtaining these drinks was done according to a mutually agreed schedule, each family knowing when to bring their draff (“
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100 years - 100 artefacts

09.08.2022
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SPINDLE FOR “ARNICI”  As a week artifact, the museum proposes a complex household object, the spindle for “arnici”/ “mosor” (sheave) for “arnici” (twisted and colored cotton thread), decorated with the technique of tying wood in tin, characteristic to the ethnographic area of Pădureni Land. When obtaining a spindle made in this traditional technique, the used wood is usually plum or walnut. The
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100 years – 100 artefacts

09.08.2022
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In the peasant household, hemp was cultivated for the fibers used in the manufacture of various clothing items, interior textiles, but also for other household items (sacks, ropes). The long and tiring process of cultivation and manual processing of hemp, an activity that was predominantly carried out by women, required skills and patience, being at the same time a pretext for socializing for the
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100 years – 100 artifacts

22.07.2022
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The Saxon ceramics from Transylvania presents a special distinction and bear an easily recognizable mark: cobalt blue, a cobalt oxide that is difficult to procure and used here in pottery, starting with 1720. In the larger Transylvanian Saxon villages, there were one or two potters who worked for the needs of the village. In towns, however, pottery was a craft practiced under the sign of guilds,
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100 years – 100 artefacts

22.07.2022
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In the traditional village from the beginning of the 20th century, many crafts were practised that satisfied the different needs of the local communities, such as the case of whitewashing from Baru, Hunedoara county, where “whole families were working to collect and break the limestone from Măgura, and they would burn it with wood in the kilns, thus obtaining a high quality whitewash” (Ioachim
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