Carpets from the collection of the National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History, which is the richest in the country, will be exhibited at the third National Carpet Fair in the “Carpet-Tradition” division. In the same division, there will be presented the most beautiful carpets from the collections of over 10 local museums. The National Carpet Fair 2016 entitled “Carpet of the Longing” is held at the National Palace on December 4, IPN reports.

Minister of Culture Monica Babuc told a news conference that the module “Capet-Continuity” will contain works made by craftswomen of the Orhei center “Rustic Art”, which makes carpets from wool and natural fabrics colored with natural paint. This year, the “Carpet-Guest” will be the Bulgarian one. During the previous years, the guest carpets were the Azeri carpet and the Turkish one. The module “Carpet-Contemporariness” brings together the largest carpet producers of Moldova, which display carpets made by the chromatics and model of the national carpet.

“This is gladdening as the people will be able to see that not only the economic profit fosters the development of these companies, but also the promotion of our national traditions. The objective of the event is to promote the weaving of carpets and other textiles from wool and will contribute to promoting the Bessarabian carpets at national and international levels,” said Monica Babuc.

The event will include the Fair of Craftspeople that will involve 15 craftspeople, including six craftswomen.

The event is staged by the Ministry of Culture in connection with the promotion of the element “Traditional techniques of making carpets in Romania and the Republic of Moldova”, which on December 1 was included in the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

Monica Babuc congratulated the whole cultural society on this occasion, saying more files are being examined such as “Cultural practices associated with March 1” and “Archeological Landscape Orheiul Vechi”. The minister assured that the authorities will continue to work on the heritage elements that define us and that are worth being included in the UNESCO Representative List.

According to a press release of the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry’s Secretary of State Andrei Chistol said the inclusion of the traditional techniques of making carpets in Romania and Moldova in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage will enable to promote the Romanian carpets at national and international levels and to transmit these to the next generations.