One of the last amadou hat makers, Karoly Mate. These hats are made from Fomes mushroom leather. скачать в хорошем качестве

One of the last amadou hat makers, Karoly Mate. These hats are made from Fomes mushroom leather.

Amadou is material made from Fomes fomentarius mushrooms. This species grows mainly on beech and birch. A part of the cap called trama can be extended with figers (when cleaned from the spore part and the top layer "skin". Primarily this material was used as tinder for fire making in many parts of Europe. Hat making was rarer. And survived only in one village in Transylvania (now a pet of Romania) in a place inhabited by Szekler people speaking an ancient dialect of Hungarian. Only a few families still make a hat, mainly old people. The video was made with the youngest from the line of Mate hat makers, Karoly Mate. This is the vegen leather of the future and these people steward this knowledge. Recently this issue was popularized by the famous ethnomycologist Paul Stamets.