Dolj District

In the territory of Oltenia region are preserved traditional knowledge and skills for processing clay, metal, stone, wood, leather, and other animal and plant materials. Products combining raw materials: wood, metal, horn, leather, glass, textiles and others are also made. The final shape and arrangement of the national list, and also these by regions, follows mainly the principle of grouping and sliding crafts and crafts, according to the material being subjected to treatment.

The most persistent and difficult amenable to change even now are the home occupations. They occurred even at the very ancient times, a feature of domestic activities is their regional and local identities. Traditionally, some of them like weaving, needle working, and knitting lace, the making of the majority of religious items (bread, pan, colored eggs, ritual dolls, figures and hands) were made by women and others like shepherd carving - by men. This division is prereserved greatly today. Relatively strictly are observed also some local peculiarities in the development of items, prereserved are some regional names, and some of the traditional prescriptions and beliefs associated with the making of ritual objects. And today, as in the past, much of the homework activities are ubiquitous spread and the skills for their implementation are not uncommon. They are socially significant opportunity for the human creative talents. As a whole male crafts are preserved in a much lesser degree than females. On the other hand much more rarely are met those women home occupations, whose work in the past have found a place in the market. Although rarely there are detected data and individual home occupations, that are unique to a particular ethnic group. Examples of this are the cut "Wallachian" lace and more.

In today's conditions, attention has also the production of goldsmith, wood engraving, copper, masonry, pottery, traditional construction, leather, saddlery (making reins, bridles and other belt supplies for draft animals). Rare in modern times are some country-specific crafts such as cutlery, Gunsmithing , homespun tailoring (production of abby and shaiatsi and sewing clothes from them ), construction of plasti, shoemaking (chehlarstvo), packsaddle manufacturing (making harnesses for the freight cattle), tinkler processing, wine vessel making, braid (braids making, ie the making of colored wool cords to decorate the traditional clothing of the aba), horn processing , manufacture of toys and folk musical instruments. In parallel, in the lists are included some new crafts like bell casting, phaeton and millinery which occurred later, but have proved to be traditional Romanian reality. Today they are also rare and preserved only in some places.