The World’s Last Amadou Makers — Korond III.
<p>“Maybe when I die, you could stuff me and display me here in the corner of the room. You could show the tourists the old amadou maker!” says Zoltán Fábián, teasing his wife, Erzsébet. As some of the last surviving amadou-makers, the retired couple try to preserve their traditions by showing visitors the intricacies of a dying craft, albeit with a hilarious and quite fitting bent of fatalism.</p>
<p><em>Amadou-making</em>, a<em> </em>method of creating felt-like clothing accessories and decorations from the soft interior of the common forest-dwelling <em>hoof fungus</em>, was a craft once<em> </em>practiced across Central and Eastern European mountains. Today, however, it’s only here, in the Transylvanian village of Korond, where the last members of a once prospering community are still active. They call it <em>taplászat</em>.</p>
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