“The Peasant Room” and the Revival of Tradition
“The Peasant Room” and the Revival of Tradition

Summary/Abstract: “The clean room” or “the peasant room”, as it has been called lately, is the space where people from Maramureş place the most beautiful objects, most of them crafted by themselves: the most wonderful rugs, flowered carpets, woven table cloths, exquisite (woven) wall carpets and towels, the most valuable icons and 'talgere' (plates). In this article, the interest focuses on the context of the creation of the “peasant room”. For each “good room” that I visited in Dragomireşti, Ieud and Săliştea de Sus has a special motivation for which people have decided to have such a room in their houses; this motivation has a close connection to the lives of the women who created them. Thus the “front room” becomes a feminine topos: it is the space where the woman represents herself mainly through the dowry, the inheritance from her parents which she displays here.

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