I made this bag during my university studies. I come from a small rural village, so I was naturally attracted to folk art.

When i started to work in the Hungarian Heritage House, I was amazed at how rich our traditional folk culture was. I learned the basic technique of leather craft. This is how we learn from our ancestors...

The aim of this project was to preserve the decorative motifs of the leather jacket of the shepherds. This technique is rarely used by embroiders because there is no longer available the traditionally processed sheep skin. The basis of the experiment was to try a variety of leather materials, which are available on the market. During the project, a designer and a craftsman could work together
to inspire each other.

This project is related to the culture of Hungarian shepherd artists The basic
decoration is given to the long wool woven fabric of the shepherds’ coat. Wool material refers to original clothing.

Here in Hungary we have lots of handicraft masters who study and make folk art as a hobby. They keep hungarian tradition alive. They try to adapt old objects and motives to the modern object culture, so they change forms, colors, material or patterns. In this project i worked together with an embroiderer called Misik Mónika.

First i thought wood carving is craft only for boys. But i really wanted to try out that one, that is an endangered craft. The masters are old, and the younger one don't have time to do the original hand woodcarving. I usually organizing that kind of workshop to make it alive, and teach more boys this technique.