Meet The Corn Husk People

Today is Friday, I mean #MarketFriday. I'm a huge fan but somehow today I forgot about MarketFriday. Shame on me. Good thing I had to reply to Denise's comment and just realized I need to do a post.

Going through my craft fair photos I came across these that worth posting about. This was something new to me, I've never seen such art at the craft fair although I'm a regular, never miss the occasion.

These figurines or I don't know how to call them, are made of corn husk and dressed in Romanian folk costumes.

Here's a close up photo for you to see the details. The whole figurine is made of corn husk, except for the vest of the woman, which is crocheted. Some of the corn husk is dyed to have the desired color.

These are ordinary village people, women with aprons and head scarfs as they were usually wearing those back in the day.

They are all wearing opinci, which is a traditional Romanian and Eastern European footwear made of leather. In the back of the photo you can see a pair which is just a demonstrative pair for people to see. You can also see tiny baskets made or rope and filled with grass and containing chickens, symbolizing Easter as the fair was right after Easter.

These women are wearing leather vests and the one at the bottom of the photo has a spindle that was used to make wool yarn. Back in those days everything was done manually, handmade. Clothes, shoes, furniture,tools, houses, everything.

Meet the artist. This is the woman who is creating these wonderful figurines. When I arrived to her stand she was telling some people her story. She said she wanted to create something unique and interesting keeping the tradition alive. So this is how she came up with the idea of using corn husk because that was part of these people's everyday life and it's also organic material. She's created these figurines to illustrate what life was like once.

This is my entry for this week, see you next week.