Meeting Vladimir After 3 Years – The Young Millennial Keeping Alive a Vanishing Profession

This article features affiliate links, meaning we’ll earn a small commission if you purchase through these links. Please read our Privacy Policy for more details. Do you remember Andrei  Vladimir, the young millennial loom weaving, spinning and performing heritage textile crafts with a passionate commitment like you rarely find today? Back in 2017, after reading articles about him, we visited Vladimir at his home from Bârlad, Vaslui County. His story was too compelling not to meet him in person. If you have already read the story, you might be wondering how is he doing these days. Well, he opened a little weaving workshop in Romania, Bucovina. This autumn, we had the chance to reencounter him at his new place in the village of Arbore. What made him move here was the tiring long commute.  „Customers want to pick up their order in person, so every Monday, I had to load the orders and travel by train to Câmpulung. The long commute was difficult, so I decided to move to Bucovina. In 2019, I opened this workshop.”, he remembers. The workshop can be reached at the main street, on the road between Solca and Moldovița, nearby the old Arbore Monastery, founded in 1503 … Continue reading Meeting Vladimir After 3 Years – The Young Millennial Keeping Alive a Vanishing Profession