Handcrafts from Lithuania Exhibition
Cermaics
Ceramic are made from three different combustion methods: glazed ceramics, fermented ceramics and black ceramics, which uses a very old traditional method for its manufacture, depends on pine wood, where the pottery is placed to burn and is colored by the natural smoke of burning wood.
Amber
Amber is about drops of resin that fell from trees did not dissolve in water and were carried by rivers to the sea. Rivers carried these drops out to sea on a long journey, remaining for thousands of years at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, where they turned into amber, which is referred to as Lithuanian gold.
It was used by Baltic tribes from 2000 to 1800 BC to make jewelry and textile tools, to treat diseases and to protect people from evil spirits. Albertas Bukauskas, a Lithuanian jeweler and folk artist, stringed the longest amber necklace recorded in a Guinness World Record book.
Woodcarving
Wood carving was a very popular and responsible work in Lithuanian antiquity. Carved wooden sculptures and decorations decorated Lithuanian houses, graves, and important places. Trees for decoration were responsibly selected and dried, later carved in small and curled details.
Valdas Pelegrimas’s collection consists of works of a tree of indescribable beauty. Sculptures are made from hard kind of wood, most of them from Oak.
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