The Bulgarians' innate aesthetic sensitivity creates art from every kind of material. The desire for beauty has led to work tools being decorated with figures and lines, and wood being carved in various shapes. Garments come alive with braidings, embroidery and jewellery. Prompted by a sense of beauty in everyday life, applied crafts first emerged at home. Their scale and variety gradully increased, and the masters came to perfect their skill in the spirit of national traditions. Thus, at the end of the 14th century, art and crafts in Bulgaria amounted to about 50. On the other hand, progrss in quality is expressed in the fine artistic finish, particulary in the case of precious metals, in the wealth of composition and in ornamentation.

    The aesthetic principle of the Bulgarian masters stems from the admiration of nature, and is expressed in the attempt to resemble it. This piety also determined the laws of colour, which are best seen in the case of embroidry and textile crafts.