Basketry Museum of the Roma

The Basketry Museum of the Roma (Greek: Το Μουσείο Καλαθοπλεκτικής των Ρομά), is a folk museum in the Thrylorio/Trala/Tralangere Village of the Municipality of Komotini of the Rhodope regional unit, in Western Thrace Greece. It was founded in 1995 and specializes in the traditional basketry of the Kalathoplektikís Christian Romani people from Greece and Sepetčides Muslim Romani people and Sevlengere Romani who are Greek Orthodox. One room displays the materials and tools, as well as the process of basket making. Other rooms display baskets from various regions and a basketry workroom of the Roma.

Kalathoplektikís (Basketmaker) Christian Roma[]

The Kalathoplektikís are Orthodox Christian Romani people in Greece. They are since the 11 century in Greece. They speak Greek and Romano-Greek language.

The Sepetčides/Sevlengere (Basketmaker) Roma[]

The Basketmaker Roma, in Sepečides Romani also known as Sevlengere Roma, are a Roma group, who speak Turkish, Greek, and Sepečides Romanes from Saloniki, Greece. Some use officially the Hellenized Turkish word Sepetčides (Basketmaker) for themselves. About the Population exchange between Greece and Turkey, at 1923, the Sepetčides Muslim Roma departed from Thessaloniki to settle in Turkey. Their descendants speak only Turkish today. Greek Sevlengere Roma speak Greek and a dialect of Sepetčides/Sevlengere Romanes.^[1]

Bulgaria[]

Although the same profession, the Sepedji (basket makers) in Shumen speak a different dialect and are not related to the Roma basket makers from Greece and Turkey.^[2]

References[]

External links[]

• website of the museum
• the museum at "Greek travel pages"
• Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism / (in Greek)

Coordinates: 41°04′41″N 25°28′47″E / 41.0780621°N 25.4797254°E / 41.0780621; 25.4797254

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