Romanian Folk Textiles

This is the catalog from the exhibition, Romanian Folk Textiles, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles (now Craft Contemporary), March 7 - April 16, 1978.

Guest Curator Joyce Winkel

• Preface by Joyce Winkel
• Introduction to Romanian Textiles by Dr. Paul Petrescu
• Text by Joyce Winkel
• Catalog
• Lenders
• Bibliography

The life and culture of the Romanian people have developed in the lower basin of the Danube and the mountain ranges of the Carpathians. Their uninterrupted settlement of this area has determined the original character of the Romanian people's artistic creation. A rich tradition, which comes from an ancient Thracian basis, has continually developed, influenced over the course of time by important currents of art from the Greek, Roman, and Byzantine civilizations, for the position of Romania has always favored contact with the Orient, the Western world, and with the Slavs.

The quantity of woven materials in a Romanian house is so large that the term currently used for defining their arrangement is "to dress" the room. And it is really so, for the surface of the walls practically disappears under the materials. 

-Excerpts from the Introduction

Craft and Folk Art Museum, 1978, softcover, 9 x 8 inches, 48 pages.