Graphics, Symbol and Technologies of Making Traditional Moldovan Carpets

Abstract

The cultural traditions of a nation, a people are reflected in the symbol, graphics and technologies of making popular wear products. The linear graphics, the chromatic ornament, framed in structural compositional rigors educated over long periods, denote the cultural cultivation of the people for centuries. Traditional carpet weaving technologies preserved over time reflect spiritual as well as economic development. Adaptation, graphic elements and borrowed weaving technologies led to the development of the popular wear product and the carpet itself. The traditional carpet is a product with a considerable lifespan and at the same time it is the product that transmits, but also preserves over time, the symbolic and graphic elements of the woven motifs. Production technologies reveal to us a rather varied palette of ornamental motifs, broadening the product's destination. Each period of carpet development promotes a basic ornamental motif. The rose motif is predominantly characteristic of the 20th century, the tree of life motif identified as an authentic motif is found in the 19th and 20th century carpet. The use of motifs of the "tree of life", "comb" or "palm", "shepherd's hook" in the ornament of the carpet, characterizes the authenticity of the product. The way of organization, the graphics of the ornament changes over time, taking over foreign cultural influences, in this way the dry carpet. the 19th reflects the stylized graphic of the ornament motif loaded with elements of symbol and legend, the graphic of the sec. the 20th makes attempts at realistic accounts of the ornament.