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Handmade plates
Decorative handmade plates
Handmade plates are traditional in Romania . You can find handmade plates in almost every house. Our grandparents made them and everybody has the duty to pass it on to the next generation. They were used, and in some houses they still are, like decorations and were hanged on the walls.
PitGifts handmade plates
PitGifts offers you Romanian handmade traditional gifts. You can buy from handmade plates to handmade spoons. The handmade plates they offer are from Horezu, in the Valcea County and from Maramures. Every county has a different way to paint the plates. At PitGifts you can find six different models of Horezu handmade plates and three models of Maramures handmade plates . Horezu plate it's a traditional plate, hand made using kick wheels and simply finishing tools as cow's horns and goose feathers and is 23 cm. Maramures plate it's a traditional plate from Maramures,hand made using kick wheels and simply finishing tools as cows horns and goose feathers, cross model and it's 28 cm.
Painting tradition
Handmade plates are usually painted with symbols from Romanian culture, symbols that bring luck and good times, symbols that represent special things for the ones that paint them. Many years ago this plates were used like normal plates, not only for decorations, in the winter when all the fields were covered in snow, the women stayed home and made all sorts of traditional stuff, like handmade plates , handmade spoons, wood figurines.
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| wood house |  | | traditioanal wooden carved house from Maramures region (model 2)
35x45 cm | 409.10 USD
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