Art appeared in very ancient times. When the objects necessary in the house daily were made; besides being useful, they also had some artistic features. The artisan developed forms of art which consisted in decorating the tools, the house, the furniture, the clothes, namely: wood carvings, ceramics, weaving and sewing, leather processing, metal works, glass paintings, knitting. These are characterized by geometrical or stylized patterns and by the originality of the colours. The folk art represents the people’s life style, their fondness for the beautiful and their wish to live a better life.
Maramures County is different from the neighbouring zones because of its original architecture, clothes, dialect and traditions. Maramures was called „the wood land”, as wood can be seen everywhere: from the architecture of the traditional houses and churches to the gates and the household objects. The well-known Maramures gates are real masterpieces of the popular art and are rich in sculptures with different patterns. The objects connected with farming and grazing activities as well as those used for some small household production are also made of wood. The weavings combine geometrical patterns with the flower, zoomorphic and anthropomorphic patterns represented by horse riders, dances, human figures, placed especially on trimmings. They are carried out and coloured differently, depending on their destination. The Maramures clothes have original, specific elements.
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