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

VII Southern Transdanubia - VII-4 House from Csököly

son, Ferenc slept on the bench by the table. The room was heated by a beautiful tiled stove, which was fed from the kitchen. In the black kitchen opening from the alcove-type hidden porch on top of the oven there is a wicker basket used for drying fruits. The old trimmed chest standing in the pantry used to be a chest • White mourning sacks were kept in it. In the yard there is an outbuilding of the same age as the house containing pantries for pressing and storing wine, a stable and a shed. The jug-rack standing in front of the house was used for drying jugs. For centuries in many parts of Europe white was the colour of mourning. In Csököly even at the beginning of the 20th century old womens clothes and mourning-dresses were white. It was a simple and unadorned expression of grief. Not only were the mourners dressed in white but so was the deceased and all the textile used at funerals such as the scarves and funeral palls were white.