Handicraft products - Tand Environs Handicraft Association
Our non-governmental organization includes the most renowned masters of traditional handicrafts and fine arts. Visitors can get an insight into the secrets and tricks of traditional handicrafts, and try to make the objects themselves. On demand programmes can be made even cosier by wine-tasting. It is also possible to purchase handicaft products cherishing folk traditions, which everybody can fit into their objects of everyday use.
Komárom-Esztergom county values
Razabra Cultural heritage
Razabra is an independent Hungarian product brand, which is a traditional mixture of folk and modern embroidery. The brand is constantly developing and has the power to create a community.
Dóra Zábráczki has been designing and making leather bags and clothing accessories in her Tata workshop since March 2014. Today, it can be said that he succeeded in creating a Hungarian Handcrafted Product brand, Razabra®, which he registered on May 24, 2018. His work openly represents his creed, outlook, life affirmation and unconditional love. RAZABRA, his 10-year-old craft work, is characterized by circular motifs and patterns that symbolize balance, harmony, and change as a single constant.
The technical-creative part of RAZABRA is a harmonious mixture of folk leather decoration and modern leather decoration. The realization of the motif-form world, a very ancient embossing process, which he combined with his uniquely developed coloring technique and the design and realization of fashion accessories. He currently carries out his work completely alone. Thanks to the love, attention, openness and similar views of the people who like RAZABRA products, the brand is constantly developing through them, and by now it is perhaps almost complete. He created a beautiful community.
Glass industry exhibition
Bernát Kurczweil, a resident of Óbuda, established a small hut in the area between the Tokod railway station and the Vienna highway in 1892. The year 1921 was a turning point, the United Light Bulb and Electric Factory bought the plant. Here they blew light bulb balloons, which were assembled into light bulbs in the Újpest factory. In 1932, the owner bought a high-capacity machine for the production of light bulbs.
In Tokodon, the blowing of balloons ceased, and the production of opal glass began, which remained an important hand-made product until 1992. In 1932, the number of people working here was already around 750, at that time jam and cucumber jars up to 12 liters, cylinders for kerosene lamps, various wine and brandy bottles and semi-automatically produced pressed bottles and plates were already being produced.
The museum Enthusiastic professionals, old factory workers and masters were involved in the collecting and organizing work. An exhibition was opened in 2012, where the history of the factory and its popular products from the past can be seen at the exhibition. Its traditional science, history, and beautiful creations always attract attention and impress people.
The work of the painter Lajos Dobroszláv
The painter Lajos Dobroszláv (1902–1986) worked in Felsőgalla from 1926, and then settled permanently in Tata in 1942. In addition to his creative work, he worked as a drawing teacher, and between 1950 and 1954 he was the director of the local museum. In 1950, he received the Munkácsy Award. His memory is lovingly preserved and his works are proud, not only because of the extremely large number of works and the relative popularity of his oeuvre, but also because of the quality of his art.
In the 1940s and early 1950s, he painted large-scale oil paintings on the theme of miners, and then became one of the most important Hungarian masters of watercolor painting through his lyrical, post-impressionist depictions of nature. He lived and worked in Tata for 44 years. In 1987, a memorial exhibition of his works was organized in the local museum. His pictures can be found in the collections of the Hungarian National Gallery, the Christian Museum in Esztergom and the Kuny Domokos Museum in Tata.
In Tatán- and Tatabánya-Felsőgallán-, where he worked as an art teacher for 16 years, several plaques were inaugurated as a sign of tribute to the work of the renowned artist and the appreciation of posterity.
Dorog pamphlets 1-51. volumes
A series of works embodied in several decades of authentic city history documents and elaborations. The research, preservation and presentation of the city's history is not only of local value, but also at the county and even the national level. what the editors and authors in the Dorog City Friends Association have done and are doing for the public since its inception in 1990 in researching and making the values of the past public, is more than remarkable. In addition to the many facts of the civic association's involvement in urban politics, one of its activities is "only" the creation of culture, nurturing, and saving the values of the city's history.
The series of books entitled Dorogi Füzetek can be interpreted as an ever-fulfilling spiritual formulation of the desire to explore the settlement's past and the aspirations to improve our present. The volumes provide a good basis for achieving the goal set at the beginning, for writing the urban history monograph. But there is still much to be said, which brings the city closer and closer to having sufficient knowledge about its own history and values.
The artistic and scientific work of Dr. József Till
In addition to his medical profession, Dr. József Till also distinguished himself with very productive and high-quality scientific and artistic achievements. His graphic work was outstanding: he immortalized his landscape experiences and the topics of his interest in countless series of drawings and watercolors. His series about significant Rome and the Esztergom Basilica. His lasting work in the field of fish biology was particularly large-scale, as evidenced by his numerous publications and taxonomy. His depictions of fish are extremely unique: Fishes of Hungary (2003). His lyrical poems were also published in a Dorog anthology (2009).
In his picture series, Dr. József Till immortalized his current topics with extraordinary visual fidelity, so his work has a serious documentary power. His work in halibiology represents the pinnacle of the profession. His depictions of fish are highly sought after. His fish are almost alive in the pictures, even the number of scales is the same, since he studied specimens brought only to him from distant regions due to his reputation in his own aquarium.
Neuzer bicycle
Less well-known than the Japanese car factory operating in one of the strongholds of the domestic vehicle manufacturing industry, Hungary's leading bicycle manufacturing plant, the Hungarian-owned and managed Neuzer Kerékpár Kft., was founded in 1987. The range of self-made NEUZER (formerly ALTRIX) bicycles meets almost all needs: MTB, road, trekking, competition, city and children. The approximately 100,000 bicycles manufactured here each year have won serious market recognition at home and abroad due to their innovative appearance, reliability and excellent price-value ratio.
The products of the Neuzer company are present in almost all specialist shops in the domestic bicycle retail trade. "What is so special about our bikes? Go for a ride with them, you'll feel it!" says András Neuzer, the main owner of the company since its foundation. In 2013, the country's first rental bicycle system was installed in the company's founding city, Esztergom. The expansion of the highly popular automatic rental stations is increasing every year in our cities.
Bajnai bun and its binding
The bun in a suit / Komárom-Esztergom county settlement history pile /
"Destination rules prescribing age and occasion dress also existed in Komárom-Esztergom county, especially in the more varied women's clothing. Girls went unmarried, they wore a bun, and older women wore a headscarf. On the first day of major holidays, Black Sunday and Good Friday, it was dark, on the second day of the holidays and on Palm Sunday, they wore white, but at least light-colored clothes, boots, and later strappy shoes."
It was made of cardboard because it could be hardened well. Lace was sewn on the 3 corners of the square hemmed material, folded into a corner, the plain was inside and the top was inside (9-10 cm). They put folded newspaper under it to make it more durable.
The longer side 2 times approx. They were folded 10-10 cm wide. The two longer peaks, on both sides, were pushed forward so that approx. Leave 15-20 cm in the middle (this became the beginning of the bun).
The long hair was combed into a bun, the shorter hair was made into an accessory. It was adjusted to the head, held at the forehead. They formed 4-5 wrinkles on the sides by folding them forward, while the long stems had to be firmly held down. The two long laced ends were knotted very tightly over the exposed laced corner, and then the laced corner was folded up a little. The finished bun was stuffed with paper.
Even in the old days, few people undertook to tie the bun. And nowadays, you should be happy if you find someone who has the science of bun tying.
It was also characteristic of Bajna that initially the bun served as a handkerchief. The women wore it under the scarf, and thus gave a nice shape to the bandaged head. Later, young women were reluctant to even tie their heads with a scarf, so the bun later served as a headdress. Buns made of prettier material and more prettily knitted began to become fashionable.