Cepse din colecţia de etnografie a Muzeului Judeţean de Etnografie şi al Regimentului de Graniţă Caransebeş
Bonnets from the Ethnographic Collection of the Caransebeș County Museum of Ethnography and Border Regiment

Summary/Abstract: The bonnet is a characteristic element for the folk apparel from Banat. The specificity of the object also leads to the fitting of the women hairstyle in the category of the “bonnet adornment”, a way of special arrangement that gives brilliance to the popular costume of this area (Pl. I-V).This clothing piece also has another purpose, to make a distinction between the dressing of the young girls and that of the wives. Each girl had to create her own festive costume, which becomes a mark of the local traditions and her aesthetic vision. Women were poor, but they did not agree to be anything inferior to the countesses, so their traditional beauties began to embroider new decorative elements. They were wearing silk threads, and proudly said they painted them with the needle. The discretion of coloring harmonizes with the nature of ornamental motifs and their placement on precisely defined fields. In folk art where the names of craftsmen remain largely unknown, the ornamental motifs have been polished and selected over the centuries and millennia, becoming a treasure and standard of collective creation. The meaningful load of each sign made it possible to repeat the images, for not the sign in itself, but the spiritual convictions that were represented by the symbol. The bonnet of each has a unique and unrepeatable value. For the past, we almost can not find two identical heads, each with one or a few pinches, which were partly different in design and colour, proportions. The types of stitches used to decorate the hat are simple stitches. The oblique point in the back, which works in several colours and requires that the fabric of the cloth be uniform. The fact that the seams allowed for significant differences between people, blankets, social classes was a powerful incentive in their development and differentiation. Through its specific features, Banat structurally integrates in the context of the unity of the Romanian folk apparel and the customs of the Romanian people, present on these lands since the oldest times.

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