Cseri Miklós - Horváth Anita - Szabó Zsuzsanna (szerk.): Discover Rural Hungary!, Guide (Szentendre, Hungarian Open Air Museum, 2007)

II Upland Market Town - II-1 House from Tállya

11-1 We know the continuously changing owners of the house from the mid-19th century; they were craftsmen, mostly boot makers. The house has more than one storey, which is very rare in Hungarian folk architecture. The door under the landing leads to the cellar and the tavern. In the latter there are two presses, the wooden, older piece was used first, the other next to the wooden press was used for the rest. This is also known as a Kossuth-press Bootmaking plots around the square were donated to the Protestant congregation of Tállya by Ferenc Rákóczi II from his own estates. and was manufactured in Miskolc. This type of press was awarded several times at the fairs of the age. This was one of the most significant and Hungarian crafts in market towns, according to traditions. At the turn of the 19th-20th centuries, 97 bootmakers worked in Tállya. In the workshop downstairs a film shows the process of bootmaking and tells the history of the local guild to visitors. Try the copy of chairs! You can measure your own foot or touch the different animal skins!