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Wow. This is what TH-cam was made for! Cheers for documenting this artform and craft.... never heard of anything like this before!! Fantastic

What a share! Ty and your mentor. Just love the old world beauty of these hats!!! Just having as a collectors piece would be honorable and lend such a statement to any wall, shelf or character for an outdoorsman's head!

could you cite the statistic that shows Transylvania is mainly inhabited by Hungarian speaking people?

Hungarians are a minority, they were savage with the romanian population, killed families and lots of innocents, STOP LYING BOZGOR

Lying bozgor

Oooh, this Kiwi/New Zealander didn't know about Kākāriki using the bark as a topical medicine. I love it when animals do things I thought were the domain of humans. It's like an excerpt from a fantasy novel, but it's real :D

I was once lost in the Forrest with a bop from the former Chekoslovakia after crashing with a Cessna 152 single piston airplane. We later had to make Prophylactic condoms from these mushrooms. Thats how we managed to stay warm until rescue arrived 9 days later. I had to venture into the Forest to forage them while Lucia would spend hours milding, battering and sewing these fungi into the right shape and size. Shout out to u Lucia Zuzuna !

This moutain dude is smart, strong and talented.

Tom Bombadil !!

The materials found in nature are far superior to anything we puny humans can cook up

You have to be really poor to afford a mushroom hat!

Such a cool channel 💛

Thank you for another interesting video! :-) Greetings from Austria, and all the best.

Very interesting process, I’d be interested in trying it. I guess the elasticity that makes it workable comes from a high proportion of β-glucan to chitin in the trama-if so, many species might actually be usable for this, not just F. fomentarius.

This is amazing. Thanks for sharing with us.

Forget cucumber hats! Xandiloquence Bizarre the Ab3rd has nothing on a mushroom hat.

Frozen beauty

forest gnomes would love this.

Just.. AMAZING.

This was fascinating. Thank you for sharing it.

Unfurtunatly Latvian woods choped at realy high speed they live wood next to the road so you have inpressen there is wood ,there isnt many national parks to preserve old wood and when you go foreging you culd finde youre spot been choped down.Latvian woods ovned by invster from Scandinavia predominantly and Europe.

Niiike Mushroom Jordans would be so comfortable - instead of Air there a bladder w trama - wallets, belts, wonder if theres some of this in my backyard - wonder what I can make with slime mold -? Just gettin started baby

What an incredible material. Ive never seen anything stretch like that.

Thank you for this video. Thank you also for clarifying who the Szeklers are.

That is so cool!

When using the Amadu to create tinder for flint & steel. Don't just boil it in ash. The ash it self pollute and clogs the fungus and makes it less likely to catch the sparks. Put a LOT of ash (From leaves specifically from leaf trees like Birch, it gives the less amount of coal and the purest ash you can get) in to a tub of water. Mix the ash and water in to a watery milkshake like consistency(The mixture should be around 2 parts water 2 parts ash, tho slightly more water as once the ash settles the water should be just above the ash.). Let it sit for a few days, and every day stir it. The ash and water will produce after a while something called lye, which acts a bit like acetone. It dries out your skin like nothing else if it comes in contact with it so where glows and eye protection. AND DONT LET KIDS GET NEAR IT!!! It will corrode their tummies if they drink it! (If you mixe Lye with fat/veg oils, then you can also make soap out of it. there are youtube videos about it.) After about a week, you carefully pour the "water" now if done properly Lye in to another container preferably strained trough a coffee filter to reduce the amount of ash transferred. Lye should be red ish in colour. You use the lye to boil the Amadu. Boil it on low heat for about 40 min to 2h depending on how thick the pieces are, don't add more to the pot than what can be covered by the lye. Then grab one large flat rock, and a fist sized flat ish rock and hammer the pieces of amadu flat, be careful to not just crush the material, (And as before where gloves and eye protection, you really don't want lye on your fingers nor want Lye splattered in to your eyes) then carefully rub it between your fingers to "open" the pores in the Amadu up, and let it dry in a ventilated room. (Just so that no unnecessary moisture seep in to it) IF you have done every thing right the Amadu should be like naturally bark tanned leather in texture, and should catch a spark super easly. A tip is to split the amadu trough the middle like opening a book. this splits open the middle fibres making it catch the sparks even better as it now have "hairs" sticking out. If you done every thing right and have tinder, just put it in to a glass jar or a plastic box for storage. This fungus have no best before date, and will remain usable for as long you keep it dry. Just be aware that this fungus smells a LOT once you light it on fire, and pleas do the boiling out doors so you don't end up breathing in any potentially toxic fumes. I fucked up some years ago and did it indoors while boiling Resin for a project, and inhaled a fuck ton of turpentine fumes. I still to this day about 8 years later have issues breathing due to it.

This is important and must be preserved. Greetings from central Texas.

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Vegan leather seen it all now

Your aplamatum is suspicious. Are you aware that Lucidum was split-up a few years back into several species? I'm just sayin', you might wanna double check with all the genetic testing going on. There's like 12 more Ganaderma then there was 10 years ago.

There's another suitable polypore but I don't know any names for it. Much larger but thinner, like G. applamatum but creamy white and much larger in clusters on hardwood. I'm not sure it is even a named species tho, I can't find it in a dozen guides. That's why idk. I would otherwise (or I'm dense).

Transilvania NEVER have belonged to hungarians, they came from Ural, Fino-Ugric Invaders

My father had one. He loved that. It was like leather but somehow softer.

The colors of the hats are beautiful

One of the coolest things ever.

It's a miracle and a wonderful, thanks for sharing

I'm so happy to come across this video. Thank you for sharing this unusual craft. I like these hats.

Amazing

WTF? I'm in my late 40s, and I've never heard of this. Thanks for the education, bro. 👍EDIT: Being largely an ethnic Irish-Polak, in America, I'm always interested to learn about different European cultures and traditions...others too, but primarily Indo-European. This is fascinating.

“It don’t smell really freaky”? Is that true?

Interesting video! greetings from Germany

I'd love to have one....maybe when I travel to the area I'll look up some local shops

So lovely! I've seen them before, and assumed they were suede leather. Mushrooms? Delightful!!!! I also see why they are so pricey, it's an unusual, and time consuming process. Thank you for sharing this!

One more "Ohkay"

Those are cool hats

I used to do craft fairs on the east coast with someone who made hats like this

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❤❤❤ It's a pity that some sentences are cut off in the middle and the film ends so abruptly. I would have liked to have seen so much more, but thank you very much for pointing it out and presenting it.

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This is wonderful- thank you so much for highlighting this craft 🙏