Thailand,the land of smiley people

               The Thai cultural festival took place between 18-22 September in Bucharest. Craftsmen and dancers from Thailand came there and show their most beautiful traditions.

                Firstly,the festival was places in the Peasant Museum and after that it was moved to Cismigiu Park. There weren’t so many things as in the first place, but we could also see dancers and craftsmen.

                The program was starting at 1 pm with some dance demonstrations, we could see a dance ceremony for agriculture and it lasted until 5 pm. During this period every craftsman was working: some were making Thai dolls, some animals by shaping the sugar and others were making fans and fishes from palm wood.

                On 18 and 19 when they were at the Peasant Museum, they had also umbrellas made from paper and hand painted , but they were all sold when untill they moved to Cismigiu.

               The most interesting craftsman was the one that made animals from sugar. He made horses, kangaroos, monkeys and whatever you were asking. Nevertheless, the most beautiful figurine was a dragon. It was the most difficult to made and it was up for auction at the end of the day with the starting price of 15 ron.

               It was an interesting experience, as long as I can’t travel to Thailand, I’m glad that I could see their traditions here, in my country. Thai people were very nice, smiling all the time and trying to answer you, even though they didn’t know English very well.

               In the end, I asked an craftsman if they will come back next year and he said that it is very likely to return because everything worked very well and they made good money. 

Handmade dolls

                                          

Handmade dolls are representative for each country,in general they wear national costumes.

First doll is from Cluj-Napoca, it's a Hungarian doll made from rags.The second is a doll from Bulgaria,Balcik and it's made from rope and rags.It is more tough than the other one.

They are very different from one country to another and I think it would be very interesting to see how they are actually made.

Handmade fair

There was a handmade fair in Ploiesti about one month ago.People from all around the country came here to sell their craft items.You could find there things like jewelry,wood crafts,ceramics,clothes and others,but also antiques.

I found their products very interesting,but what impressed me most was a gipsy craftsman who was making jewelry melting small pieces of silver and using ordinary tools as hammer or chisel.He was using also gems like Amethyst,Quarz,Jaspin and others.
I think it was the first fair of this type in Ploiesti,but it was very interesting for those who are interested in handmade things.