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My girlfriend, Bea, born in the Kalotaszeg region in Transylvania. The people from there are good manufacturers and merchants. She ask me to take the offline business to the web and try Ebay.
Week to week we will present the best of the Kalotaszeg artwork and... let`s see what happen.
"Transylvania is a strange corner of Europe", the architect and writer Kós Károly wrote in 1937.
A smaller district of this strange, and despite its misery attractive region is the Kalotaszeg: 41 hungarian villages in the land watered by the rivers Körös and Kalota, bellow mount Vlegyásza of the Bihar range. The Hungarian inhabitants, who have varied in number since Magyar conquest led by Prince Arpad in the 9th century AD, erected stone churches during the period of the medieval House of Arpad in the villages of Magyarvalkó, Banffyhunyad, Ture, Fenes, Kalotaszentkiraly, Bikal and Egeres. In the 15th and 16th centuries many of the churches acquired a tower with four pinnacles and steeple, built by rural craftsmen in the local style of late Gothic.
Various phases have been linked with the name of the district: "Calvinist Kalotaszeg", since the inhabitants of all but two villages belong to the Reformed Church; "Kalotaszeg art", referring to the rich peasant embroidery, textiles, woodcarvings, furniture and pottery; "Kalotaszeg, a harmony of colours", commenting on the supreme and majestic folk costumes.
What the etnographer Janos Janko wrote in 1892 about the Hungarian inhabitants of the Kalotaszeg remain true even today: "there are good farmers, hardworking people, who manage their time well, with fresh minds and blood, not tied to their land, men who not only cultivate the soil but there are experts in some trade, women who earn their living by needlework, people who go to church regularly and respect their ministers, who behave as he advises, steadfastly keeping all traditions, protecting themselves against any alien influence. They are relaxed, moderate thinking, pure, energetic, healthy and fine race."
The houses in the villages of the Kalotaszeg are a proof of skill and ability to join forces: the habit preforming communal tasks is practiced even now. The locals show wooden gates with elaborate carving of tendrils with foliage and variation of tulips motives; carved and painted furniture; walls decorated with ornamental plates; handwoven textiles hung on the bar; twill tablecloths; elaborate towels; the stoves of glazed tiles made by the local potters. The reveal the lavish realm realm of peasants embroideries with their old motifs each in on of a range of fine, moderate colors: white, black, brick-red, red or blue. All the colors combine on the costumes of the women, supplemented by purple, violet, green and yellow. The costumes vary according to the occasion and the rules of the community. The include women`s smocked skirts (one type pinned up at the sides is called muszuly), smocked aprons, embroidered blouses or shifts, short sheepskin vest with silk needlework girls` pearly headress (parta) with it colorful ribbons. If one had to describe the women`s costume in a single world it would be "majestic". But the same world could be applied to the embroidered mantle of the men, similar to the one worn on the Great Hungarian Plain, or the sheepskin coat, or the stitched blue cloth jacket. A thick white frieze coat used to be worn to church in the winter several decades ago, but it is now a rarity worn only on village.
The way small Hungarian communities preserve their native languages and the folk and national tradition is on defence for the existence of the Hungarian nation as a whole. Language-not only the spoken word, but in customs, music and art- is more than a tool for communication, for it represents the land of one`s birth and a liknage with all Hungarian in the world regardless of frontiers. The heritage of traditions today expresses a silent demonstration, confidence and resistance.
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