Scoarţe basarabene
Bessarabian traditional wall-carpets

Summary/Abstract: For our brethren living on the left bank of the Prut, “scoarțe” [traditional wall-carpets] are not only a dimension of the folk culture, but a true identity mark. At the beginning of spring, the Bessarabian researchers, led by Petru Vicol, the director of the National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History, had selected the oldest and most valuable “scoarțe” from the collections of the institution and crossed the Prut in order to show them to the lovers of beauty living on the other bank of the Romanian area. In the halls of the Ethnographic Museum of Moldavia from Iaşi would flow a colourful universe, full of essences, in which the aesthetic valences constitute only one of the dimensions of our folk-art masterpieces, full of deep meanings. The Bessarabian fabrics cannot and should not be isolated from those on the right bank of the Prut and, not even less, from those existing in other Romanian regions. They transmit the same ethnic peculiar message, the same apperception of the ancestral symbols, the same aesthetic and decorative content.

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