H UNGARIAN T RADITIONAL H ANDCRAFT Stop! Why are you running away from your past?!

H ANDCRAFT 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.

C RAFTSMEN 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.

W OMEN ’ S JOBS

D OLLS MADE FROM STRAW

D OLL MAKER

N EEDLEWORK : A NYTHING THAT USES A NEEDLE FOR CONSTRUCTION CAN BE CALLED NEEDLEWORK :T HE MOST POPULAR STYLE IS ’ K ALOCSAI ’

P ATCHWORK OR " PIECED WORK " IS A FORM OF NEEDLEWORK THAT INVOLVES SEWING TOGETHER PIECES OF FABRIC INTO A LARGER DESIGN

L ACE IS AN OPENWORK FABRIC, PATTERNED WITH OPEN HOLES IN THE WORK. T HE MOST POPULAR LACE IN H UNGARY IS CALLED ‘H ALASI ’. IN CSERKESZŐLŐ THERE IS AN ARTIST : M ÁRTA R ÉVÉSZ.

W REATH MAKERS

F LORAL DESIGN USES DRIED FLOWERS, LEAVES

P EARL TACKING PRODUCES JEWELLERY : NECKLACES, EARRINGS, WRISTLETS

E GG DECORATING IS QUITE A POPULAR ART / CRAFT FORM BECAUSE OF THE ATTRACTIVE, SMOOTH, OVAL SHAPE OF THE EGG.

C RAFTS MADE BY MEN

B ASKET WEAVING IS THE PROCESS OF WEAVING VEGETABLE FIBERS INTO A BASKET OR OTHER SIMILAR FORM. P EOPLE AND ARTISTS WHO WEAVE BASKETS ARE CALLED BASKET MAKERS, BASKET WEAVERS

B ONE 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

H ORSEHAIR PRODUCTS

W OOD CARVING IS A FORM OF WORKING WOOD RESULTING IN A WOODEN FIGURE OR ORNAMENTATION OF A WOODEN OBJECT.

T UB OR BOAT CUTTER

F URNITURE DECORATING. B RIDES ’ SETTLEMENT WAS STORED IN BIG ORNAMENTED HUTCHES

M ASK MAKERS. T HE MOST POPULAR MASKS MADE IN H UNGAR Y CALLED B USO MASKS ARE FROM THE TERRITORY OF M OHÁCS, THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE COUNTRY.

C OWBELL MAKERS. T HE COWBELLS WERE MADE FOR THE ANCIENT HUNGARIAN CATTLE CALLED GREY CATTLE.

L OAM MAKERS. T HE HOUSES WERE MADE OF ADOBES WHICH WERE PERFECT INSULATORS.