Weaving, black pottery, and cross crafting are three important handicrafts in Lithuanian folk art. Weaving was used to create bedspreads, costumes, and woven items that reflected a person's mentality. Black pottery from the 18th century Dzūkija region is black-colored and durable like metal. Lithuanian cross crafting combines elements of architecture, sculpture, and painting in crosses that feature symbols of the sun, birds, and the tree of life, and was recognized by UNESCO in 2001.

1. Handicrafts in Lithuania

4. Weaving

5. Weaving is one of
the oldest Lithuanian
folk arts.

6. Almost everything was
woven: from ordinary
bedspreads to
stunning items of
Lithuanian costume.

7. It was strongly
believed that woven
materials reflect
persons mentality.

8. Woven sashes are one
of the oldest, most
widespread and
multicoloured
Lithuanian folk textiles.

10. Black pottery
Black pottery

11. Black pottery is one of the
most widespread handicrafts
in Lithuania.

12. In XVIII century this ceramic type
was widely popular in Dzūkija.

13. All of this pottery is black coloured, it
sounds like a bell and is as firm as
metal.

14. Cross crafting

15. Lithuanian cross crafting is a
traditional Lithuanian art of
crafting crosses.

16. The crosses combine elements of
architecture, sculpture, blacksmith
art and painting.

17. They often feature floral or
geometric symbols, motifs of the
sun, birds and the tree of life.

18. Lithuanian cross crafting has been
enrolled into the list of
Masterpieces of the Oral and
Intangible Heritage of Humanity of
2001 by UNESCO.

19. Hill of Crosses is a sight of
pilgrimage near the city of Šiauliai,
in northern Lithuania.

20. Roadside pole with a statuette of a
saint and roadside pole with a roof
both are sacralic monuments.

21. Roadside pole with a roof were
also widespread in Lithuania.

22. Roadside pole with a statuette of a
saint is a type of folk architecture.