Decorated Eggs
Eggs d
isplayed
at the Adam Muller
Guttenbrunn Museum
in Timisoara
by Jody
McKim, 2004
Crepe Paper Flowers
Winter & All Souls Day
Flowers
by
Anne Dreer
There was no one
in our village who made silk flowers. The ones
used at weddings were bought. The flowers for
funerals in the summer were real, in the
winter and for "Allerseelen" on November 2nd
they were made of crepe paper (different colours)
and dipped in melted wax. The stems were wires
with green crepe paper twisted around them. My
mother made really beautiful crepe flowers.
The crepe paper
was bought in the local store (like a village
general store) which the Schwoba called Gwelb,
probably a derivetive of the high German "Gewölbe"
= vault.
The crepe paper
was cut into strips, off the top of the roll
about 3 inches wide with the crease lines
running the width of the strip, not the length.
With slightly dampened fingers one entire edge
of the strip was rolled, like you would roll a
thread with your finger tips. Then the centre of
the strip was stretched to make it bulge a
little. The other strip edge was then wound
around a green crepe paper covered wire. When
finished it looked like a rose.
Silk Flowers
Silk Flowers for Semlak
Brides
by
Rose Mary
Keller Hughes
The brides in
Semlak wore a crown/wreath of flowers on their
heads--since weddings were often in the colder
months, live flowers were not
available. There were women in the village
whose specialty was the creating of beautiful
silk flowers for the lovely head pieces.
The women also created floral pieces and wreaths
for funerals. Was this a practice in your
ancestral village?
