Description: crocheted figurines –a flat white flower with yellow thread around the centre and voluminous strawberry with sewn yellow dots and green handle. Linked to a twisted red and white thread,tied in a bow and attached with a pin to a white cardboard, cut with decorative scissors, wrapped in cellophane, taped at the back.

Handmade by the aunt of the donor, who was disabled and made them at home for a workshop at the LPC in the town of Gorna Oryahovitsa, where she lived.

Dimensions: flower length 1.7 cm; strawberry length 2 cm; cardboard: 5.2/6.5 cm.

Material: synthetic yarn, cotton thread, paper.

Donor: Nadka Ivanova, Rousse.

Date of donation: 2021

Date of production: 70 – 80s of the XX century.

Description: elongated flat motif in white and red, handmade in macrame technique – rhomboid with checkerboard intertwined threadsin the middle, two leaf-shaped motifs at the top and bottom –in white and red; under the tassels. Made as a model by Maria Bratkova–colleague of the donor, in the “Danube Craftsmen” – an association of masters of folk arts and crafts in Rousse.

Size: length 9.5 cm.

Donor: Tatiana Koleva, Rousse.

Date of donation: 2021

Date of production: beginning for the XXI century.

Description: “Pizho and Penda” – anthropomorphic figures, male and female, respectively white and red, shaped from tassels, with knitted hats. Connected with twisted red and white thread tied in a bow. А ring with a goldish metal figurine – a ladybugis attached to the knot.

Part of a collection containing 324 pieces of martenitsas sent from Bulgaria to France, collected by the donor in the period 60s of the XX c. – 20s of the XXI c.

Dimensions: length 3.5 cm; ladybug length 1.4 cm.

Material: cotton thread, metal.

Donor: Marianka Radeva de Montis, Bulgaria/France.

Date of donation: 2012

Date of production: 60 – 70s of the XX century.

Description: “Pizho and Penda” anthropomorphic figures – male and female, respectively red and white, shaped from tassels, with knitted hats. Connected with twisted red and white thread tied in a bow.

Part of a collection containing 324 pieces of martenitsas sent from Bulgaria to France, collected by the donor in the period 60s of the XX c. – 20s of the XXI c.

Dimensions: length fig. 9.5 cm

Material: synthetic yarn.

Donor: Marianka Radeva de Montis, Bulgaria/France.

Date of donation: 2012

Date of production: 80 – 90s of the XX century.

Description: “Pizho and Penda” – anthropomorphic figures, male and female, formed by tassels, respectively white and red. Faces – made of beige leather circles with painted eyes and mouth; to the female figure added an apron – white with red and black horizontal stripes, and hair made of red threads; the male figure with a vest and a black leather cap. Connected with twisted red and white thread tied in a bow.

Part of a collection containing 324 pieces of martenitsas sent from Bulgaria to France, collected by the donor in the period 60s of the XX c. – 20s of the XXI c.

Dimensions: length of the figures 7 cm.

Material: synthetic yarn, leather.

Donor: Marianka Radeva de Montis, Bulgaria/France.

Date of donation: 2018

Date of production: second decade of the XXI century.

Description: “Pizho and Penda” – anthropomorphic figures, male and female, formed by tassels, respectively white and red; heads of wooden beads with painted eyes and mouths; the female figure – with “braids” of yellow silk thread, painted rose on the head, with alace apron; the male figure with a metal cap and red tie; Connected with twisted red and white threads tied in a bow.

Dimensions: female length fig. 5.2 cm; male – 5 cm.

Material: synthetic yarn, wood, metal.

Donor: Silva Karalamova, Rousse.

Date of donation: 2021

Date of production: beginning of the XXI century.

Description: “Pizho and Pendo” – anthropomorphic figures, male, one white, the other red; factory made tightly wound up yarn, in an elongated shape, folded in two and tied in two places so as to form a head, torso and two legs; on the heads a black hat of coiled yarn, with a coloured felt ball for decoration; on the front of the torso embroidered with multicoloured threads contours of a vest; on the legs –puttees; the two figures are sewn together at the puttees, the heads are connected with red twisted threads tied in a knot.

Part of a collection containing 324 pieces of martenitsas sent from Bulgaria to France, collected by the donor in the period 60s of the XX c. – 20s of the XXI c.

Dimensions: length fig. 11 cm.

Material: synthetic yarn – vidlon.

Donor: Marianka Radeva de Montis, Bulgaria/France.

Date of donation: 2012

Date of production: 80s of the XX century.

Description: figures of male and female heads, formed of plastic balls tightly wrapped with silk threads passed through them; the female – white with applied flowers, eyes and mouth made of textile, the male with an acorn cap; the two figurines are connected by a red and white twisted thread tied in a bow.

Part of a collection containing 324 pieces of martenitsas sent from Bulgaria to France, collected by the donor in the period 60s of the XX c. – 20s of the XXI c.

Dimensions: height – red 3.6 cm; white 2.6 cm;

Material: synthetic silk, plastic, wood.

Donor: Marianka Radeva de Montis, Bulgaria/France.

Date of donation: 2012

Date of production: 70 – 80s of the XX century.

Description: Anthropomorphic figure – clown, shaped from a tassel in white and red, with a white bean asa head, with red short fringes as hair and a small wooden disc in green as a hat, with red and white twisted thread tied in a bow. On the white “leg” of the figure are two miniature pompoms in red. Part of a collection containing 324 pieces of martenitsas sent from Bulgaria to France, collected by the donor in the period 60s of the XX c. – 20s of the XXI c.

Size: length fig. 12 cm.

Material: synthetic yarn, bean, wood.

Donor: Marianka Radeva de Montis, Bulgaria/France.

Date of donation: 2007

Date of production: 70 – 80s of the XX century.

Description: Anthropomorphic figurine – a woman’s face, shaped from a white bean with painted eyes, mouth and hair, through which a twisted red and white thread is strung, tied in a bow.

Part of a collection containing 324 pieces of martenitsas sent from Bulgaria to France, collected by the donor in the period 60s of the XX c. – 20s of the XXI c.

Size: length 8 cm.

Material: synthetic yarn, bean.

Donor: Marianka Radeva de Montis, Bulgaria/France.

Date of donation: 2012

Date of production: 70 – 80s of the XX century.

Description: Figurine of a girl, with a head shaped from a flat wooden disk with red braids of artificial threads, dress and hat made of checkered textile – red with blue, yellow, white and green; limbs of white cord at the ends with a red ball (the ball on one “hand” is missing); twisted red and white thread tied in a bow on top.

Dimensions: length 6 cm.

Material: textile, wood, synthetic yarn.

Donor: Ilina Sirakova, Rousse.

Date of donation: 2021

Date of manufacture: beginning of the XXI century.

Description: brooch – metal plate, goldish, with safety pin on the back, with wooden figurines attached to metal rings pitcher and cup with traditional colour.

Dimensions: tile length 2 cm; height – pitcher 1.7 cm, cup 2.3 cm; cardboard: 7.3/5 cm.

Material: metal, wood.

Donor: Violeta and Milena Yovchevi, Kubrat

Date of donation: 2021

Date of production: 70 – 80s of the XX century.

Description: brooch – metal plate, goldish, in the shape of a bow tie, with a safety pin on the back, with wooden figures attached to metal rings: plate and pitcher –“handle”, coloured with traditional motifs in white, red and black.

Dimensions: tile length 2 cm; plate diameter 2.4 cm; pitcher height 2.3 cm.

Material: metal, wood, synthetic silk.

Donor: Veneta Kamburova, Rousse.

Date of donation: 2021

Date of production: 70 – 80s of the XX century.

Description: pendants –miniature spindles formed by toothpicks with coils of red and white yarn, the ends of which are tied in a bow.

Part of a collection containing 324 pieces of martenitsas sent from Bulgaria to France, collected by the donor in the 60s of the XX century – 10 years of the XXI in.

Dimensions: length 6.5 cm.

Material: wood, synthetic yarn.

Donor: Marianka Radeva de Montis, Bulgaria/France.

Date of donation: 2018

Date of production: beginning of the XXI century.

Description: a pair of miniature stylized white leather moccassins with red textile lining, sewn on the front, painted seams on the side; with a red pompom sewn to the front. Connected with twisted red and white thread. One pompom is missing.

Dimensions: length 4.7 cm.

Material: leather, textile, synthetic silk.

Donor: Emil Mihailov, Rousse.

Date of donation: 2018

Date of production: 50-60s of the XX century.

Description: brooch – goldish plate in the shape of buckles, on the back with a safety pin, with two imitations of gold coins attached with chains. Attached to a white card.

Dimensions: tile length 2.4 cm; coin diameter 1.4 cm; cardboard: 7.5/5.2 cm.

Material: metal, paper.

Donor: Violeta and Milena Yovchevi, Kubrat.

Date of donation: 2021

Date of production: 70 – 80s of the XX century.