There are a wide variety of crafts to be seen in the village such as wood carving, bags and woven carpets in bright Rodope colours, knitted clothing including the traditional Bulgarian slippers.

In Bulgaria, when you enter someone's house it is polite to remove your shoes which will be replaced with a pair of these hand made knitted or woven slippers.

While shopping for souvenirs in Bulgaria, you're sure to run across lots of fine examples of Bulgarian folk art. Dolls wearing traditional Bulgarian costumes (Rhodope).

They are either made from cloth or carved from wood and painted and make wonderful additions to your personal Eastern European souvenir collection.

The desire for beauty that has led them through the millenia first grew up at home. Applied crafts have gradually increased and emerged from the narrow domestic frame and become an art which breeds art. At the end of the 14th century arts and crafts in Bulgaria amounted to about 50.