The
living premises and the workshops are detached in the so called
"craftsmen's street ". Sixteen architectural patterns
of Gabrovo district depict the talent and skill of the Renaissance
builders. Different interiors, homemade weaving, icon painting
are shown on the second floors of the houses. On the ground floors
numerous crafts are revived: there are workshops for sandals,
a furriery, a coppersmithery, cow-bells workshop, pottery making
workshop, workshop for silverware and woodcarving, for producing
carts, national folk instruments, a cutlery, bakery and confectionery
with a coffee shop, as well as a rich collection of medicinal
plants and herbs. There the craftsmen are manufacturing different
products and selling them directly from the workshops. In this
way the visitors enjoy the opportunity to observe the ancient
technologies, the original instruments, to have a conversation
with the masters. They can bay a handmade hammered knife, wooden
bowl, copper coffee pot, patterned earthened jug, silver jewelry,
a Gabrovian rug, icon with a wood-carved icon-stand, or a curing
medicines from the herbs-selling shop a souvenier to memorize
thier trip in Etara.
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