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Traditional Bulgarian Crafts

The Bulgarian's aesthetic sense and conception of the world makes him create art out of any kind of material - wood and clay, wool and copper, silk and silver.
Applied crafts have bit by bit emerged from the narrow frame work of strictly domestic life to become an art that breeds art. Bulgarian embroidery with its complex geometrical figures, Bulgarian rugs and carpets with their vibrant colors, exquisitely painted Bulgarian ceramics, finely ornamented fretwork and superbly fashioned Bulgarian jewelry.
The Samovodene Market in Veliko Turnovo, the Permanent National Exhibition of Folk Art in Oreshak near Troyan and the Etura architectural and ethnographic complex near Gabrovo are all original museums of the revived beauty of Bulgarian handicrafts.