Hey you guys! Thanks for joining us on another journey.
today we're in Bulgaria. today we are at the open air
ethnographic museum, otherwise known as Etara, in Bulgaria.
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we're in a traditional craftsman village in
Bulgaria. there's people practicing old traditional crafts like making knives
carving bowls it's definitely different than
a traditional museum. usually i guess there's a lot of people
practicing the old crafts and you can buy some traditional goods
here. the goal of this complex is to
illustrate the architecture and way of life and economy of Gabrovo
and the region during the Bulgarian National Revival
what year was that? approximately 1762 through 1878.
wow that's crazy. but it is late in the day
and obviously it's winter so i don't know
it seems to be kind of quiet around here today
but it's still neat to explore it was only
six Bulgarian lei for two people so i think it's like a dollar fifty i'll
write down how much that is above
it connects the hair and it spins it
into a...something. look how old school that is
he's making a rope he's making a goat hair rope that's what he's doing
i don't know because the rope is attached to this which spins
the hair into that oh i don't know what he's making. yeah do you see?
oh it looks like he's actually making a rug
not a piece of rope... Ya dum-dum... He's making the thread to make the rug
everything was so much more difficult back then but
the quality was probably amazing and i'm sure it was very satisfying and
rewarding. yeah it looks like it takes them all day
to make a rug. look it's more coppersmitting like we saw in
Sarajevo oh yeah check this out
still remain the same with coppersmitting so for example he learned
his craft from his father his father from his father and then his
grandfather from his grand grandfather. first look like that when started work
okay
i just you just start tapping away until i was using the
half circles like that different shape different size
card above. i believe this is how they make
braid is a knitted woolen cord it was used for decoration of the traditional
Bulgarian clothing of men and women as well as for the decoration of regular
uniforms of the Turkish army before the liberation in 1878.
the beginning of the mechanical braid dates back
to the first decades of the 19th century when the first Bulgarian machine
chark, a kind of cogwheel, came up
so this is Nic, he is our booking.com uh host and his mom
she's making up our room for us that's the name of what's the name of your
guest house? Koliovata Kashta. yeah,
we'll write that down for you. okay go ahead oh thank you. what did we
pay for this booking.com april? you'll love this pillow it's nice and
floppy-flimsy for you. um we paid $34
and that includes breakfast in the morning. yeah homemade breakfast
yep i love homemade breakfast. bread is so good. i've never had anything like this, this
is super light and fluffy it just tastes so different than
anything i've ever had. this is some of the best
bread in the entire world! Bread is so fluffy, look how fluffy this is
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