Ethnography
Either they work in wood (icons, wooden spoon or other vessel) or ceramics, either they decorated the eggs or paint the icons on glass, either they decorate the popular costumes or knit the rods and bulrush, the handicraftmen from Romania became famous all over the world.
The most important places for their folk heritage are the followings:
The sculpture in wood/ wickerworks:
Brasov (Brasov County); Pietris (Dolj County – painted crosses); Crasna and Polovraci (Gorj County); Gherghita (Prahova County); Campulung Moldovenesc, Gura Humorului, Suceava (Suceava County); Vaideen (Valcea County).).
Ceramics:
Cosesti si Vladesti (judetul Arges); Balcani si Oituz (judetul Bacau), Botosani (judetul Botosani); Manzalesti (judetul Buzau); Olari, Galesoaia, Glogova, Stefanesti, Vartop (judetul Gorj); Corund (judetul Harghita); Baia Mare, Targu Lapus (judetul Maramures); Sisesti (judetul Mehedinti); Negresti, Vulpanesti (judetul Neamt); Oboga (judetul Olt);
Vama (judetul Satu Mare); Radauti, Vama (ceramica neagra) (judetul Suceava); Jupanesti (judetul Timis); Dumesti (judetul Vaslui); Horezu, Vladesti (judetul Valcea); Iresti (judetul Vrancea).
Popular costumes/ carpets/ folk masks/ fabrics:
Topoloveni (Arges County); Telciu, Salva (Bistrita Nasaud County); Buzau (Buzau County); Cernatesti, Macesu de Sus (Dolj County); Galati (Galati County); Tismana (Gorj County); Botiza, Rogoz, Sapanta (Maramures County); Piatra Neamt, Tarpesti, Tripesti (Neamt County); Breaza (Prahova County); Ciumarna (Salaj County); Altana, Avrig, Marginimea Sibiului (Sibiu County); Humor, Marginea, Sucevita, Vatra Dornei (Suceava County); Barbatesti, Ramnicu Valcea (Valcea County); Nereju (Vrancea County).
Icons on glass:
Brasov (Brasov County).
Decoration of the eggs:
Harghita County, Marginimea Sibiului (Sibiu County); Bucovina (Suceava County – Izvoarele Sucevei, Moldovita, Paltinu, Vatra Moldovitei).
Naive painting:
Brusturi (Arad County), Bacau (Bacau County); Resita (Caras-Severin County); Iasi, Baltati (Iasi County); Vaslui (Vaslui County).
Usually, the handicraftsmen gather themselves on the occasion of the important holidays: Sfintii Petru and Pavel in Bucharest – Village Museum (June 29); the Flowers Fair, the Romanian Peasant Museum, Bucharest; Virgin Mary, ASTRA Museum from Sibiu, where the only festival of the etnographic films in Romania takes place (August 15), Sfantul Nicolae in Bucharest, the Romanian Peasant Museum (December 6




















