I met Ana Cazac in her kitchen in Gura Humorului, a small town in northern Romania. She’s one of only four or five people in the entire country who still make traditional Romanian mask craft with their own style. Just…
Viorica Petrovan told me it takes six months to finish one traditional Romanian shirt. I thought I’d misheard. But watching her in her workshop in Gura Humorului, adding beads one by one, I understood. This isn’t just sewing. It’s patience…
I first met Leuciuc Oresia at a small handcrafts festival in Bucharest, standing behind a table of impossibly intricate decorated eggs. Each one looked like it belonged in a museum – and as I’d learn later, many of her pieces…