Kászonújfalu

KÁSZONÚJFALU (Casinu Nou, Rumania today) Descending from Nyergestető to the east, the first village is Kászonújfalu which is first mentioned in an old document in 1477. The 1614 military census counted 108 recruitable men which accounts for approximately 500 people. The 1661 Tartar raid and the terrible black pox epidemic of 1719 reduced the population to one-third of the original. The church is over 200 years old, whereas the school over 320 years.
One of the favourite past-time activities of the Székely women in these villages is to make a woven fabric material, called festékes (Enlg. painted), which is used as an unpholstery or wall carpets, etc. Although, this fabric is not painted but weaved using coloured threads, making the festékes is an important part of the Székely cultural and ethnic traditions. In this picture a Székely woman shows a festékes that she made.

Székely woman with festékes