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Handicrafts

creativity and

tradition

The world of the woven fabrics is the richest in Sárköz and

among the Székelys in Bukovina. The best known of the fab-

rics of Sárköz are the white woven cotton tablecloths, made
of two parts, and covered with red-black-blue or red-blue or

red-black pattern stripes using geometric elements.
Annamária Bíró (1951-1998), who passed away quite young,
became famous not only for the continuation of ceramic tra-
ditions of Sárköz but also for reproducing the white pott ery
with blue motifs of Barcaújfalu. She was the artistic leader of
the ceramic factory in Szekszárd, and established her own
small workshop in the 1970s. Ferenc Verseghy, who lives in
Tolna, has been making his own pieces of glazed pott ery and
pieces using the Habán technique from Sárköz since 1984.

The pearl collars and pearl dress accessories of Sárköz are
unique in today’s Hungary. Proof of this is that beading is
an important and emphasized part of Sárköz’s folk culture,
which was included in the National Register of Spiritual
Cultural Heritage.
Textile-printing (in Hungarian: blue dying) is an ancient
textile dying process that is disappearing. Today, four out of
the eight workshops with equipment are active. Th e Tolna
Blue Dye Workshop, founded in 1810, is the oldest blue tex-
tile dying workshop in Hungary, and it still operates.

The copper-plated breast-harness, decorated with frills, is
known as part of the traditional Hungarian driving culture
and has its roots in the early 19th century. Th e Hungarian
breast-harness was sewn entirely by hand and was only used
in the territory of historic Hungary. Dénes Nepp, a harness-
maker, craftsman and folk artist in Szekszárd is one of the

few who are still making high-quality breast-harnesses.

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