"We shall guard not to let the singing peoples, the myths creating peoples, the picture-drawing women and carving men die out, because the entire mankind will die out with them." (Ferenc Juhász)

About the craftmen

Horváth Ottó

At secondary school he has made acquaintance with the smithery. From the beginning of the 80-er years he began to be occupied in wood carving. Later, in 1992 he began to carve articles for personal use and ornamental piece from antlers and bone. Later he began to make small sculptures and then has come the new love, working of eggshells. He decorates them by carving. The reticulated patterns immortalize some ancient symbolical motives, scenes of the Bible, arms and genre pictures.

Horváthné Császár Erzsébet

She is an eternal pedagogue: she has been occupied in teaching and cultivating of the folk's traditions, the knowledge and teaching of the hadworker techniques for 30 years.Her world is first of all the textilie. The nicest of her embroideries are the works with Zala motives. She likes the Zala white embroidery very much. Beside the ambroidery she knows and practices the batik work, the felting, weaving and threading of beads. She applies several techniques of decorating eggshells, her favourite is the with hem-stitch decorated, reticulated, rich surfaced egg.

Pictures of our gallery

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