The first room illustrates the techniques used in the Black Pottery from Marginea, with the work, decorative, and burning stages as well as the finished products or current products that resemble the old ones in their shape. One can also see here the pottery from centers like Dolhesti, Paltionasa, Siret or Campulung Moldovenesc.

 

 

 

 

 

• The second room presents the pottery from Radauti and Kuty, each with its specific characteristics. Another form of pottery, the enameled pottery, appeared in Radauti at the beginning of the XV century.

The 5^th room illustrates the technique of weaving elements of folk costumes with the work stages, as well as the tools and installations used : warping tools, revolving winding frames, weaving looms with auxiliary tools – reels, shuttles, weaver’s reeds, pulleys - together with the finished products : girdles, peasant skirts, head kerchiefs.

 

 

• The 6^th room presents the technique of weaving ”scoarte”(folk rugs, used to cover the walls) and vegetal colouring. Exhibited here are weaving looms for the weaving of these so called ”scoarte” and also plants and flowers from which different colours are extracted, illustrating the vegetal coloring, as well as samples of dyed wool and recipes for obtaining colours. ”Scoarte”, carpets, fabrics for peasant bags are exhibited as finished products and stand out through a unique blending of colours, stylization of the ornaments, repetition and well balanced repartition on the surface of the fabric, as well as the alternation between decorated surfaces and simple ones..

The 7^th room presents the women’s shirt and wedding kerchiefs, both hand-sewn, which are made only with the help of the scissors and the decorative needle. Therefore, the design of the neck and sleeve wrinkled shirt is presented here, which has its origins in the dacians’ costumes; “wrinkled” patterns, sewing points and ornamental patterns of enlarged sizes, ways of applying beads and spangles on shirts and kerchiefs are representative for specific areas of our region.

 

 

 

In the 8^th room one can observe the traditional coat making technique (“sumanarit). Fulling mill wools, structure patterns for traditional coats and mantles, work stages, as well as finished products representative for specific areas or regions: Putna, Fratauti, Satu Mare, Bosanci, Granicesti, Arbore are displayd here.

 

Sheepskin Coats (room 9)

 The making of sheepskin coats was one of the oldest occupations of the Romanian peasant. Images of the Romanian sheepskin coats are exhibited in room 9 of the Radauti Ethnographic Museum. Here one can admire the beautifully decorated walls, with “bundite“(a sort of long sleeveless furred coat worn by men) and sheepskin coats worn by the peasants of the Romanian villages, as well as ways of cutting out the skin, recipes for hardening the leather and techniques of decoration.

Some coats are decorated with lamb or fitch skin or are even woven with characters specific to certain places or regions.

The Radauti “pieptare” (a sort of vest, made of sheepskin) especially stand out, being decorated with “the tree of life”. The “pieptare” worn by the people of Horodnic, the peasants of Fratauti, Satu Mare, Volovat or Bilca, which are sleeveless and have wide hems, cannot go unnoticed.

Also beautifully crafted are the some pieces from the Humor and Campulung region, with lots of flowers that cover their entire surface.

The “pieptare” without decorations, also call on one’s attention through the originality of the way they were cut out and crafted and are representative for the Straja, Granicesti or Calafindesti regions.   

Room 10

The 10^th hall exhibits objects that belong to the wood collection: technical devices and household wood tools.

One can see here simple tools such as: scythes, rakes, flails, wood crotches, ploughs, felting mills for wheat-peeling or for crushing salt or oily seeds, for unrolling the maize seeds, baskets, old traditional barrels for storing cereals, grinding mills, as well as more complicated devices such as oil presses.

One of them has a system with “little wooden horses” put into action by foot or by hand through some pulleys. Those devices prove that popular craftsmen were aware of principles, laws and rules used in modern technique (the lever principle, the inclined plane, the winch and the pendulum) due to continuous practicing. Sometimes they even bring their original contribution, as a sign of the creativity of the craftsmen.

 

 

 

Rooms 3 - 4

For a better understanding of the first work stages of the household textile industry, samples of raw materials and tools are presented : combs, brakes, pitchforks and spinning machines, reels, yarn winders, but also samples of linen, hemp and wool fabrics.

 

ITINERARY

The exhibit calls one’s attention not only by the value of the exhibits, but also by the manner in which they are displayed, a manner which suggests the context in which they are used.

The exhibition illustrates in a very convincing way the idea of the Romanian people’s continuity on the lands of Bukovina.

The viewers can therefore observe that our ancestors didn’t realize anything useful without being beautiful and that everything that is beautiful is also useful.

The last stop in the museum: the Pottery Manufactory

The originality of the museum is once more proved by the manufactory of a pottery artist from Radauti, Florin Colibaba, descendant of a famous family of potters, the grandson of the well known Constantin Colibaba. The artist represents the fifth generation of this family, whose name is associated with the refined ceramics of Radauti and Kuty. The traditional shapes and chromatics have lived on in his creations until the present day. The drawings show the life of peasants, their beliefs and daily activities. The visitors can see “live” how the clay is transformed into pottery, the steps of the process and they can also admire the rich collection of the artist that consists of plates, jugs, candlesticks, small pots, trays, soup bowls and others, and can even buy some of them.

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