Acta Musealia

Manufacturing of fabrics brought also the need for their dyeing and decoration. This need gave origin to a narrow specialisation - dyeing craft. In the town of Rožnov pod Radhoštěm, this professional craft began to develop around the middle of the 18th century with the advent of dyers Bayer from the town of Valašské Meziříčí. The craft of dyeing was in increasing demand and reached the peak of its prosperity during the 19th century, up to 1870s and 1880s. During this period there were two families of dyers - Bayers and Paschkas, then around the middle of the century also dyer Martin Janík. Under the influence of changes brought about by the general increase of industrialisation in the second half of the 19th century, the craft of dyeing declined. At the end of the century there remained only one dyer in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm - master dyer Alois Černoch and his son Josef, who were continuing in the footsteps of the family Bayer.
The topic of Rožnov dyers has not yet been researched and processed with any complexity. The introduction to the paper mentions articles dealing with Rožnov dyers published in regional and professional magazines as well as other activities linked to trades and crafts in Moravian Wallachia. Through an extensive and demanding excerption work in archives followed by an analysis of the researched data, an information base was created which follows the inter-generation mobility and professional activities of Rožnov dyers. The results are structured by the dyers families, Bayers, Paschkas, Janíks and Černochs, the last dyers in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm. The paper presents a coherent view of the working of the dyeing trade in the chosen place in the timeframe from the middle of the 18th century until the 1930s.

Keywords: Wallachian Open Air Museum, Rožnov pod Radhoštěm, Moravian Wallachia, dyeing trade, indigo blue-dyeing, Bayer, Paschka, Janík, Černoch