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The collections in this section are divided into fishing, hunting, logging, pottery, knitting, fleece, flax and hemp processing, weaving, dyeing, smithery, cabinetmaking, barrelmaking, cartwrighting, saddlebagsewing, shoemaking and others, plus trading.
As concerns logging, fishing and hunting, the fund comprises various axes, maces, saws and heavers. Hunting is represented by some traps and fishery has its own small exposition on the loft of the listed house No 93 in Topolná. It consists of various nets, keepnets, forks, baskets for fish etc. The collected was supplemented by a fish storage vessel and a table on which fish meat was processed, both a donation from a family of Mazůrek in Uh. Hradiště-Rybárny.
The ceramics collection is one of the oldest in the museum and was the major part of the exhibits on the opening day in 1914. In particular it was a western Slovakia majolica and also a pottery shop. Some 600 pieces of ceramics were either bought from or donated by František Kretz, a collector, in the time of the foundation, others from his legacy, on re-opening in 1931, another 237 pieces of ceramics were bought from Stanislav Lolek. Today, the collection totals around five thousand ceramic objects. In the 1940s the museum purchased majolica and a pottery shop from Rudolf Kynčl of Velká nad Veličkou, individual pieces then from pharmacist Josef Stancl and Josef Kromsián of Mistřice. In 1959 ceramics collections were transferred from the Velehrad museum, in 1964 from the Velká nad Veličkou museum, in 1965 from the Hodonín museum. The collection campaign in 1968 yielded another 460 pieces, mostly pottery. In the 1970s ÚLUV in Uherské Hradiště. Hradiště handed over to the museum their new samples of ceramics. In 1978 the village of Halenkovice donated a part of priest Tomáš Loprais´s legacy collection with a special ceramics by Albín Žitný. In the 1990s the museum got quite a large set of ceramics from Josef Zemek of Vlčnov, Josef Župka of Jankovice, Josef Hubáček of Kudlovice, Karel Fuks of Brno and Martin Bělánek of Suchá Loz. In 2005 the museum acquired a large set of ceramics illustrating teh present state of ceramics production in Uherské Hradiště region. Its prevalent part is displayed at Buchlovice´s exhibition There Was Clay at the Beginning.
Wickerwork – objects made of straw, reed, twigs and maize dry leaves form a separate collection. Most valuable objects are types of baskets including those for infants and for laundry, suitcases, for brood hens, but also demijohn wrappings, some sieves, boxes and scuttles.
Weaving, flax, hemp and fleece processing is in the fund represented by looms with accessories, then reels, a display of vertical and horizontal spinning wheels, acquired in the collecting campaign in 1968. The collection also includes miscellaneous stools, combs and reels, distaffs, looms and gloves moulds – exquisite objects from Moravian Kopanice and Horňácko.
Dyeing includes a unique set of eighty blueprint forms, donated by A. Peřinková of Valašské Klobouky, A. Tichý and A. Martykán of Veselí nad Moravou and a dyeing wheel.
Smithery and locksmithery are also represented in the Folk Architecture object in Topolná. The most valuable exhibits are smith´s bellows from Pitín dated back to 1731, from Buchlovice dated to the mid 18th century, anvils, and other tools – pincers, hole punchers, moulds, helices, keys, ironwork, hinges, hooves and original parts of wheels.
A separate subgroup is made up of objects where wood is used – cabinetmaking, cartwrighting, barrelmaking and carpentry. The set of collection objects includes a hundred types of planes and various tools for making barrels, some with an affixed date or initials of author, then draw-knives, hammers, axes, drills, angle irons, sliding gauges, stools, files, abrasives and a lathe.
Shoemaking and leather processing is, due to 1990 researches into crafts done by the ethnographic department, represented a shoemaker´s stool with a rich accessory, a set of shoe-repairing tools from Vésky, a part of shoemaking shop from Mutěnice and a set of tools from a shoemaking shop from Havřice.


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