Show bucharest rug market marke t Is an open air attraction the most important rug market of bucharest rumania from the viewpoint of travelers is not in a shop or store at all but in the open air along the river front there large rugs are displayed to prospective customers on a long clothesline arrangement while smaller ones are hung from street lamps the designs are both brilliant and exotic some of them even resembling the navajo indian rugs sold in america and try as one may one can not find the same pattern twice in the whole display most of the work on rugs is done when peasant farmers have nothing else to do then they spin the wool and weave it into the carpets and rugs for which the country is famous in rumania a good rug is considered too fine to be put on the floor instead I 1 the housekeeper hangs it on the wall as a tapestry or uses it as a covering for a bed or a table A sight both in bucharest and in in other rumanian cities is gypsy bands with trained dancing bears each gypsy has his bear and once al the animals start to perform a crowd will gather like magic to see I 1 the fun gypsies who can not get a living in this easy fashion turn to the making of wrought iron work their work is very good and one may see many examples of it ornamenting the best homes in bucharest |