
Aged 73, Mrs Aurelia is fanmous for her craftsmanship and skills for bringing the woolen yarn to life in the grandmother’s dowry – it helps create genuine works of art such as carpets, skirts, bags, purses, cloth for traditional costumes, woolen costumes, etc. The working technique that Racu Aurelia uses is the ancient and famous technique of the horizontal loom, called „tissue in states”. In hr creation one ca find „drawings” of floral and geometrical patterns, vivid traditional colours or more discreet ones, specific to the Moldavian homeland. Born in a time when the country was going through one of the worst eras of war, Mrs Racu Aurelia struggled and conquered, with her lifetime friends, the „shuttle and the pen” which helps her write peoms and songs inspired by her own life or that of the inhabitants of Ibanesti commune. As she never had the oportunity to continue her studies, Mrs Aurelia sought to learn crafts ever since she was 15.