Paper Short Abstract:

The bride's wreath from Romania - in Oaș, still preserves an archaic symbolic substratum in the way it was made, original both through the chromatic, the materials and techniques of realization, everything is ordered as in the universe, in a harmony of the terrestrial nature with the celestial one.

Paper Abstract:

The bride's wreath from Oaș still preserves an archaic symbolic substratum in the way it was made, the craftswomen who create the wreaths, being the ones who follow the most faithfully the prototype with authentic values, original both through the red chromatic dominance and through the materials and techniques of realization. Nothing is accidental on the wreath, the colors, the way they are placed, the materials used, everything is arranged, ordered as in the universe, in a harmony of the terrestrial nature with the celestial one: the world-circle appeared from the twisted bubbles of light spirals, and man aspiring to eternity in the green breath of the leaf. The bride's wreath completes a cosmology, weaving meaningful connections between the small infinity and the great infinity, knotted in the fabric of destiny, like the loose knots woven on the bride's temples, in the edging of the beauty of the world. The decorative objects are always fixed on the wreath from top to bottom, its circular shape suggesting the celestial origin and the co-participation in the symbolic restoration of perfection, illustrating the plenary, ideal unity: the Bride-the Great Goddess. The Oaș ornaments of the wreath become immanent to the primary shapes and volumes - the circle, the spiral, the rhombus, the triangle, grafted in a pure, original time, of the mythical figure of the Cosmic Fates weaving the seasons or weaving in invisible threads the destinies of the world. The bride's wreath is a concentrated miniature of the universe.