The Ethnographic museum is one of the oldest museums of this type in Moldavia, which displays the main popular techniques used especially in this part of the country. It presents the natural succession of the processing stages, from raw materials to finished products.
The pottery technique occupies a special place, because Rădăuți town occupies a special place as ceramic centre in the north-west of Moldavia. The shape of the tableware made here is similar in size and line with those of Horezu, thus constituting an example of their harmonious incorporation into the entire Romanian popular art. The ceramic is noted for its high quality enamel, having a white-ivory background, on which green and brown floral motifs are made. If the background is reddish brown, than the spiral ornaments are yellow. The originality and sophistication of this ceramic is ensured by the composition, the ornaments being symmetrically arranged on the surface of the pot, in a rhythmic symmetry.
The technique of vegetal fibers and wool processing. A characteristic feature is the multi-harness weaving (normally, 2 to 14, but there exceptions where 20-24 hranesses are used), which allows a multitude of models and which makes that each towel to be unique. The wool products include: bags, belts, homespun skirts, small carpets. Sewing represents also a traditional occupation. On the sewn cloth for shirts are made different types of models, of particular interest being those of Frătăuți, Gălănești, Costâna. The technique of making coarse-stuff peasant coat it was also known, using wool fabric which is first weaved on a loom and then fulled in order to become waterproof and showing also the stages of making a coarse-stuff peasant coat, starting with cutting, sewing and adding ornaments (the braid is called sarad). The areas with the most beatufiul coarse-stuff cots are Straja, rich in ornaments, Marginea and Volovăț, with longer coates and fewer ornaments, or capes specific to Satu Mare and Gălănești. Furriers' craft is still a widely used trade, presenting the tools used for processing skin, the patterns used and different stages of processing. The known areas for this craft are: Rădăuţi, Putna, Frătăuţi, Arbore, Vama, Câmpulung Moldovenesc.
The museum also displays other installations used in the peasant households: barrels (vessel sused to preserve cereals), cereal mills, hand-mills, wooden plough, fulling mill for coarse-stuff peasant coat.
The pottery technique occupies a special place, because Rădăuți town occupies a special place as ceramic centre in the north-west of Moldavia. The shape of the tableware made here is similar in size and line with those of Horezu, thus constituting an example of their harmonious incorporation into the entire Romanian popular art. The ceramic is noted for its high quality enamel, having a white-ivory background, on which green and brown floral motifs are made. If the background is reddish brown, than the spiral ornaments are yellow. The originality and sophistication of this ceramic is ensured by the composition, the ornaments being symmetrically arranged on the surface of the pot, in a rhythmic symmetry.
The technique of vegetal fibers and wool processing. A characteristic feature is the multi-harness weaving (normally, 2 to 14, but there exceptions where 20-24 hranesses are used), which allows a multitude of models and which makes that each towel to be unique. The wool products include: bags, belts, homespun skirts, small carpets. Sewing represents also a traditional occupation. On the sewn cloth for shirts are made different types of models, of particular interest being those of Frătăuți, Gălănești, Costâna. The technique of making coarse-stuff peasant coat it was also known, using wool fabric which is first weaved on a loom and then fulled in order to become waterproof and showing also the stages of making a coarse-stuff peasant coat, starting with cutting, sewing and adding ornaments (the braid is called sarad). The areas with the most beatufiul coarse-stuff cots are Straja, rich in ornaments, Marginea and Volovăț, with longer coates and fewer ornaments, or capes specific to Satu Mare and Gălănești. Furriers' craft is still a widely used trade, presenting the tools used for processing skin, the patterns used and different stages of processing. The known areas for this craft are: Rădăuţi, Putna, Frătăuţi, Arbore, Vama, Câmpulung Moldovenesc.
The museum also displays other installations used in the peasant households: barrels (vessel sused to preserve cereals), cereal mills, hand-mills, wooden plough, fulling mill for coarse-stuff peasant coat.
Source: Ethnographic Museum - Heritage