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The Depository documents 14 techniques in Czech Republic; by risk level: 1 critically endangered, 4 endangered, 3 vulnerable, 6 stable. Each record opens with a public summary; the full research record is free to view once registered.
The Bohemian crystal glass cutting tradition — the most significant European glass cutting heritage, centered in the Karlovy Vary region and represented at its highest quality by the Moser glassworks (established 1857), whose specific…
The Šumava (Bohemian Forest) painted glass tradition — the making of reverse glass paintings (Hinterglasmalerei) that decorated the walls of Bohemian forest farmhouses from the 17th century with religious and folk scenes painted on the…
The Jablonec bijouterie tradition — the making of glass beads, costume jewelry, and bijouterie accessories from the Jablonec nad Nisou region (formerly Gablonz an der Neiße) that from the 17th century became the world's largest producer of…
The Czech marionette making tradition — the production of the distinctive Czech string puppet (marioneta) that has been the defining form of Czech popular theater from the 17th century to the present, and whose specific Czech character…
The Czech tin toy making tradition — the production of the specific Bohemian pressed-tin and lithographed-tin toys that from the 19th century made the Czech lands (together with Nuremberg and Saxony) one of the primary toy-producing…
The Habaner faience tradition of Moravia — the distinctive tin-glazed earthenware produced by the Habaner (Hutterite Anabaptist) communities who settled in South Moravia in the 16th–17th centuries, whose characteristic white tin glaze with…
The Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad) porcelain tradition — the hard-paste porcelain production of the Karlovy Vary region that made Bohemia, alongside Meissen and Sèvres, one of the three great European porcelain centers.
The Slovácká embroidery tradition of South Moravia — the distinctive Moravian folk embroidery of the Slovácko ethnographic region whose characteristic densely packed floral and geometric cross stitch on white linen is one of the most…
The Vamberk needle lace tradition of East Bohemia — the distinctive Czech fine lace making tradition centered on the town of Vamberk (krajkářské město — 'lace city'), which from the 17th century developed a specific needle lace vocabulary…
The Czech lager brewing tradition — the production of the světlý ležák (pale lager) that was invented in Plzeň (Pilsen) in 1842 by Josef Groll, creating the specific Czech lager style that accounts for the majority of the world's beer…
The Bohemian garnet cutting tradition of Turnov — the production of the distinctive Czech pyrope garnet jewelry whose specific deep red-violet color (the rarest and most valuable variety of garnet) has been cut in the Turnov region since…
The Czech kraslice (decorated Easter egg) tradition — the making of the distinctive Czech decorated Easter eggs using multiple techniques including wax resist (batika), scratching (rytí), wire wrapping, and natural dyeing.
The Czech modrotisk (blue-print) tradition — the indigo resist fabric printing technique in which a paste-resist pattern is applied to cotton or linen fabric before indigo dyeing, producing the characteristic white pattern on deep blue…
The Wallachian woodcarving tradition of the Beskydy mountains — the distinctive Moravian Alpine folk woodcarving of the Wallachia (Valašsko) ethnographic region whose characteristic low-relief carved motifs on spruce and fir decorate…