BestCluj / Craft
One object, two audiences
The same work, two texts. The Romanian reader wants the price and the address. The reader abroad wants the context they already recognise.
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Ceramics and pottery
Transylvanian folk pottery, from the potters' houses in the Ethnographic Park and the Ethnographic Museum's collection to the places in Cluj where you can paint or shape clay yourself.
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The Romanian blouse
What the Romanian blouse is, how to read the altiță, încreț and the northern Transylvanian ciupag, where to see old shirts at the Ethnographic Museum in Cluj, and what the UNESCO listing and 24 June mean.
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Icons painted on glass
The glass icons of Nicula, the village near Gherla where pilgrimage to an icon of the Mother of God grew into one of Transylvania's best-known traditions of peasant painting, and the places in and around Cluj where you can see them today.
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Made-to-order furniture
Joinery and made-to-order furniture in Cluj and Transylvania, from painted dowry chests and the houses of the Ethnographic Park to the Libertatea factory and the difference between solid wood and panels.