Kovács Zsuzsa: Göcsej Village Museum. Exhibition Guide (Zalaegerszeg, 2008)

4. HOUSE FROM KÁLÓCFA The first house at the beginning of the street, a painted wooden building, topped by a wide half-hipped roof, originates from Kálócfa. A carved and painted gable as the decoration of the house, with various colours and patterns, was very popular in Göcsej. The house has two pantries, a heated room, a smoky kitchen and a stable. Two windows of the heated room and one of the pantries right next to it are on the street front. With this small pantry included, the street frontage and gable became quite wide. Some generations lived together in one household and they needed pantries to keep the extended fami ly's many belongings. The housewife flour and other foodstuff in the streetfront pantry, known as the flour-pantry. She kept the crop in sacks, beans and peas in a straw box with a lid, eggs in a basket and wine or water in jugs. In the smaller storerooms, in chests one upon another they kept the clothes and textiles of the families living together. The bigger pantries where tools and huge chests with fodder for the animals can fit in, are called 'stock-pantries' or 'tool-pantries'. Opposite the store room, there is an entrance - 'pitvar' in Hungarian and 'pitaf in the local dialect - and the room is on its other side where the visitors' eyes are immediately drawn to a big loom. To weave all the fabric a family needed for clothing and all the textiles in the household was the task of the women until the first half of the 20th century.