Dyehouse from Orawka

Otynkowany na biało, murowany budynek farbiarni, nakryty gontowym dachem.

It is the 2018 copy of the building that still stands in Orawka and most likely comes from the first half of the 18th century. It is the last of the local traces of the dye and cloth manufacture in Upper Orawa. Initially it was supposed to serve as a salt store on the Hungarian route and a customs chamber, at least this is how the population of Orawka remember it. The dyehouse was purchased by Jan Harbich at the beginning of the 19th century, then taken over by his nephew Jan Klein who dyed and printed (applied geometric or floral patterns to fabric with printing blocks) fabric to order for larger manufacturers. Klein closed his enterprise towards the end of the 19th century in the light of the demise of cloth manufacture in Orawa and the competition posed by industrial dyeing techniques, which ended the era of the dyeworks that had a huge impact on the region’s culture and economy. At the best of times, blueprints from Orawa reached not only the Hungarian capital but also the ends of southern and eastern Europe, Jerusalem and Asia. The dyehouse furnishings resemble the original ones. The building is currently used for educational workshops and various cultural events.

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