Pottery

Silversmith's Workshop

Workshop for wood-carving

Workshop for folk musical instruments

Furriery

Cutler's Workshop

Sweet Shop

Carts


 

Weaving workshop

Bakery

Goat's hair processing and weaving of rugs, bags


    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.

photos from the main street
of the museum
machines driven by water
hand-made
Coppersmith's trade
Cow-bell making
Goat's hair processing and weaving of rugs, bags
Cutlery
Exhibitions/Restorations of old customs
Programme/calendar, publications, year files
Hotel/interior, info, booking
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