„NOSITELÉ TRADIC“ A PERLY JIZERSKÝCH HOR

A process of leveling of traditional folk culture occurred in Bohemia since the middle of the 19th century, leading to the disappearance of certain spheres of cultural issues and values of the folk strata of the population. This trend continued during the 20th century due to the industrialization of the society and the technical evolution. The Ethnological Institute of the Academy of Science of the Czech republic, v. v. i., has taken part in the international UNESCO project aiming to safeguard immaterial cultural heritage with its projects: „Bearers of tradition - Living human treasures“ and „Living human treasures - Bearers of tradition II “. The leaders of these projects have focused on audio-visual documentation of traditional folk crafts, manual production and disappearing production technologies, because they believe this is the most complex form of safekeeping the data acquired during field research. With this method they have documented the making of glass jewellery, the beads of Jizera Montains, which was a world famous part of the Czech glassmaking, which is lately threatened by a lingering crisis of sales and production.