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

Next to the kitchen we can find the bigger pantry, the tool pantry, where besides some chests with flour or clothes in them, mainly tools were kept. If we had visited a pantry of a family living in the loghouse in the 19th century we would have found it rather untidy because so much equipment and so many knick-knacks were accumulated there. Despite this disarrangement in the store room, things are placed according to practical considerations. It was important to have the frequently used tools to hand somewhere in the front part of the pantry and to have the less used things at the back. In the storeroom of the Kálócfa house the weaving equipment is at the backspinning wheels and swingle; in the middle there is the spinning wheel attached to a beam. This was used to reel up the yarn before using it on the loom. The containers and dishes are also at the back placed on the wall out of harms way. At the front near the natural light there is the 'sziószék' ('carving chair') used by the men when they did some carving. Here stands the mortar too; being made of hardwood it was difficult to move so they usually used it here. Next to the door a seemingly insignificant but actually a very important tool is hanging from the beam on a nail, this is the 'fejtekercs' (a special pillow).