The famous Romanian traditional textiles are known to be the result of a hard work and some very special craft skills. In the Romanian villages, women were trained into traditional fiber arts (weaving, hand spinning wool, hemp, cotton, flax) from an early age. Nowadays, the few keepers of ancient customs and traditions are old rural people. 

A traditional artisan master shows us the working methods of the past. First the wool must go through a series of preparatory processes, cleaning, combing, carding by hand or with a wool carding machine. Then, the wool is wrapped and tied on the distaff and it is ready to spin.