Wooden Spoon Romania

     This page is created to promote an precious valuable old Romanian tradition.

     Carved wooden spoons, full of tradition and spiritual signification, they been an inspiration for most significant contemporary sculptor of Romania, and the hole world, Constantin Brâncuşi!

     Brâncuși grew up in the village of Hobiţa, Gorj, near Târgu Jiu, close to Romania's Carpathian Mountains, an area known for its rich tradition of folk crafts, particularly woodcarving. Geometric patterns of the region are seen in his later works.

     Now, these days, just a few people still know the art of crafting this spoons and more than that the symbolistics used on them, origins and the back story.

    This website should be an explanatory document and a way to promote a very important tradition rooted in anciant Dacia.

 

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