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The living premises and the workshops are detached in the so called "craftsmen's
street ". Sixteen architectural patterns of Gabrovo district depict the talent
and skill of the Renaissance builders. Different interiors, homemade weaving,
icon painting are shown on the second floors of the houses. On the ground floors
numerous crafts are revived: there are workshops for sandals, a furriery, a coppersmithery,
cow-bells workshop, pottery making workshop, workshop for silverware and woodcarving,
for producing carts, national folk instruments, a cutlery, bakery and confectionery
with a coffee shop, as well as a rich collection of medicinal plants and herbs.
There the craftsmen are manufacturing different products and selling them directly
from the workshops. In this way the visitors enjoy the opportunity to observe
the ancient technologies, the original instruments, to have a conversation with
the masters. They can bay a handmade hammered knife, wooden bowl, copper coffee
pot, patterned earthened jug, silver jewelry, a Gabrovian rug, icon with a wood-carved
icon-stand, or a curing medicines from the herbs-selling shop a souvenier to memorize
thier trip in Etara.