Drăguş, Braşov county, 19TH CENTURY
Nicolae D. Fogoroș-Joiu's household in the village of Drăguș, dating from the end of the 19th century, was transferred to the Village Museum in 1936. Coming from "Olt Country" or "Făgărașului Country", it is representative for the Romanian folk architecture developed in the region. Although located at the foot of the mountains, the main occupations of the inhabitants of Drăguș were agriculture and animal husbandry. Among them, specific to the village was the growth of the "drugs" (buffalo), also reflected in the proportions of the and stable that completes the household.
The house in the museum is built on an average stone foundation, which houses the cellar, and has walls of horizontal, plastered and varnished. The roof in two waters has a tile cover, placed in scales. The house has a frost with a pinion on the street, and to the yard a porch with shaped pillars and puffed railing. The plane of the house is asymmetrical, comprising a food chamber tent and a living room with "CELAR" in the back, intended for clothes reserves.
The specificity of the interior characteristic of the Făgărașului area is given by the richness of the pieces belonging to the main genres of popular creation (textiles, ceramics, painting on glass, wood). Thus, the furniture painted with floral or carved motifs is added to the walls, dressed in interior fabrics in which red and black dominate. Above the windows, underlined by long wipes, are caught plates with a decorative role. Between the windows there are large icons, painted on the "glaze" (manufacturing glass). The tables and the tall bed are covered by numerous cotton and wool fabrics worked in the household.
We notice the braided cradle from the child's wools, which in turn has a playhells for dolls, as well as "Buzdugan" (a piece in the form of a cross with two arms made by girls and flames from the most beautiful spikes and was carried in the house to the house of the one who organized the harvest).
