HUNGARIAN TRADITIONAL HANDCRAFT Stop! Why are you running away from your past?!
Jan 12, 2016
HUNGARIAN TRADITIONAL HANDCRAFT
Stop! Why are you running away from your past?!
HANDCRAFT
Handcraft is any of a wide variety of types of work
where useful and decorative objects are made
completely by hand or by using only simple tools.
It is a collective noun for the handcraft jobs. It is also an object that is crafted by skilled hands or a
craft or occupation. The producers of these objects called craftsmen.
CRAFTSMEN
The wide range of creative and design
activities includes work with textiles, moldable
and rigid materials, paper, plant fibers, etc.
Many specific crafts have been practiced for
centuries, while others are modern inventions.
We can make difference between jobs made by men or
women.
WOMEN’S JOBS
DOLLS MADE FROM STRAW
DOLL MAKER
NEEDLEWORK: ANYTHING THAT USES A NEEDLE FOR CONSTRUCTION CAN BE CALLED NEEDLEWORK :THE MOST
POPULAR STYLE IS’ KALOCSAI’
PATCHWORK OR "PIECED WORK" IS A FORM OF NEEDLEWORK THAT INVOLVES SEWING TOGETHER PIECES
OF FABRIC INTO A LARGER DESIGN
LACE IS AN OPENWORK FABRIC, PATTERNED WITH OPEN HOLES IN THE WORK. THE MOST POPULAR LACE IN HUNGARY IS CALLED ‘HALASI’. IN CSERKESZŐLŐ THERE IS AN ARTIST: MÁRTA RÉVÉSZ.
WREATH MAKERS
FLORAL DESIGN USES DRIED FLOWERS, LEAVES
PEARL TACKING PRODUCES JEWELLERY: NECKLACES, EARRINGS, WRISTLETS
EGG DECORATING IS QUITE A POPULAR ART/CRAFT FORM BECAUSE OF THE ATTRACTIVE, SMOOTH, OVAL SHAPE OF
THE EGG.
CRAFTS MADE BY MEN
BASKET WEAVING IS THE PROCESS OF WEAVING VEGETABLE FIBERS INTO A BASKET OR
OTHER SIMILAR FORM. PEOPLE AND ARTISTS WHO WEAVE BASKETS ARE CALLED BASKET
MAKERS, BASKET WEAVERS
BONE CARVING IS THE ACT OF CREATING ART FORMS BY CARVING INTO ANIMAL BONES AND OFTEN INCLUDES THE CARVING OF
HORNS.
TOOLS MADE OF HORNS SUCH AS SALTCELLAR
HORSEHAIR PRODUCTS
WOOD CARVING IS A FORM OF WORKING WOOD RESULTING IN A WOODEN FIGURE OR ORNAMENTATION
OF A WOODEN OBJECT.
TUB OR BOAT CUTTER
FURNITURE DECORATING . BRIDES’ SETTLEMENT WAS STORED IN BIG ORNAMENTED HUTCHES
MASK MAKERS. THE MOST POPULAR MASKS MADE IN HUNGARY CALLED BUSO MASKS ARE FROM THE
TERRITORY OF MOHÁCS, THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE COUNTRY.
COWBELL MAKERS. THE COWBELLS WERE MADE FOR THE ANCIENT HUNGARIAN CATTLE CALLED GREY CATTLE.
LOAM MAKERS. THE HOUSES WERE MADE OF ADOBES WHICH WERE PERFECT INSULATORS.