Across distance and time, textiles and adornments carry the life of vernacular worlds. The DRĂGAICA ROȘIE Ethnographic Collection brings these together—cloth for the body and its protections; crowns and coins for the head and the gaze; linens for the house and its spirit—so their meanings can be seen anew.

Handmade garments, household linens, and jewelry from the last century speak through structure and surface: every alteration and mend is evidence; every weave and clasp, a map.

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We read cloth and ornament as visual culture: fiber and dye, cut and silhouette, motif and repair—signs that tie body to house, ritual to everyday life.

We trace how stitches migrate and palettes are re-coded locally; how an everyday piece gathers ceremony when met with a buckle, a bead, a braid.

What emerges are connected biographies of making and use—ensembles brought back into conversation, one seam and one sign at a time.

DRĂGAICA ROȘIE is both collection and research practice.

Working between studio, archive, and exhibition—and alongside museums and communities—we turn this material into stories you can see: exhibitions, writings, and programs that invite close looking.

Explore the Textile Collection and the Adornments Collection to enter this archive of threads, metals, colors, and lives.