Dumitra, Alba county, 19TH CENTURY
Located in the ethnographic area of Târnavelor Plateau, Dumitra village is representative for the traditional rural architecture of the beginning of the 19th century in the Transylvania Plain. From here, a small household, typical of free peasants, but with a little land, who worked on the big noble lands, was transferred to the Village Museum. The social status of the former owners is also suggested by the lack of large annexed constructions. Next to the dwelling house, there is only a small front for corn.
The house has the walls made of a fence of woven and "brutal" fence with clay, they were later seen. The roof is in four waters with rounded edges and has covers of "jipi" (wheat straw bunches, hand -harvested and fastened on the frame with wicker nurseries). The house is dark, the interior receiving light only through three tiny windows with four glass stitches. The window frames, like the area around them, are painted with blue and contrast with the yellow oxide painted belt from the base of the walls.
The plan of the house is simple, comprising the tent and a living room. In the tent, the pyramidal oven with a fireplace in front and a small roof of straw cover against sparks (called "babure") draws attention. Beside this, there is also a smoker system for fruit. In the living room, an interesting piece of furniture is the canopy bed (with "cobar"), built on a wooden skeleton and covered with wool fabrics. The lavia with crate and table with high chairs complete the furniture. The polychrome textiles in which the blue, the red and the black, the ceramic placed on the walls and the beam predominate, as well as the icons on the glass give the interior an added shine.
