ARTISTIC CRAFTS

During the bronze and especially the iron epoch was the beginning of the crafts. Amazing were the results of the torevtic. In the Thracian torevtic the person is always in action - most often he is fighting with animals. They had special skills in the making of the decoration of the war equipment- shields, all kinds of helmets, chain armours, knechids… The most useful materials were the silver and gold. The Thracian masters reached the perfection when they made the war carts and the details. During the first millennium before the new epoch continues the make of bronze torkves, bracelets, rings, earrings and other woman ornaments.

 The Thracian masters used a technique not natural for the time in the make of the noble metals. They knew the technique to begin watering the gold with silver and the noble with the base metals. Silver and gold they laid over special forms and moved the negative matrixes.

The earliest and quite big Thracian treasure is known as the Valchitransko Treasure (there is slight difference in the dating - some sources show XIII-XII, and others-VIII BC). The articles have amazing technique and great skills are showed even in the littlest decorations.     Appeared the make of golden breastplates (a king sign) with various decorations, mostly of plant elements. With the king reign were connected the horse accoutrements, and also wreaths from golden plates. VI-IV BC were found many treasures: golden belt with a picture of king hunt- a wild bore pursued by two hunters and in the middle is located the ''three of life''.

  They are found many silver vessels in Lukovit, dating from V-IVBC. Most of them were in geometric figures and plant ornaments.
 They appear east motives, the pictures of fantastic animals in this case of grifons and may be the first picture of the Thracian rider (a rider hunting a lion). In Vraza was found woman funeral again with fantastic animals (IVBC), in Letniza village- silver horse applications with hunt pictures and animals, in Borovo- a jug with Dionysus and his men. Bronze and golden chain armours, golden bracelets, torkvs, rings, necklace, cult vessels, amphora, and many other proofs of the Thracian genius. The Thracian aristocracy was very rich and it scattered silver and gold to show its power.