Waving textiles has long played an important role in the economy of rural families. The various textiles shaped and patterned differently for significant events. For instance, red textiles were placed inside children’s cribs to ward off the evil eye.

Hungarian leatherworkers fashion leather into footwear, harnesses, and saddles. Horse wranglers use a lassso-like rope to seperate a horse from the herd. The most famous tool of the trade is the ’karikásostor’, a whip woven of leather strings.

Jewelry has long been an essential element in the traditional dress of Hungarian girls and women.

FOLK EMBROIDERY

The techniques and embroidery styles vary according to theri base material and yarn type. In the 18th century, free-hand floral designs of various stitch types began replacing the older geometric motifs. This led to the development of several distinctive regional and local styles of embroidery; th ebest-known of these come from Kalocsa, Kalotaszeg and Mezőkövesd.