The eastern part of the Jasielsko-Sanockie Doły is relatively fertile soil, therefore the people living in these areas were primarily involved in farming. (...) Cabbage, peas, beets, broad beans, carrots, and cucumbers were planted. From flax and hemp industrial plants. Breeding did not play a major role. Cows, pigs and horses were bred in the households for their own needs. Of poultry, chickens, ducks and geese.

Forest natural resources were the basis for the development of wood crafts. Additional income was sought, among others, in the production of wood products, which was treated as a part-time job alongside agricultural activities. Various everyday wooden objects were manufactured in Nadolany, they were: spoons, tables and brewers, spindles, troughs, grain scoops, flour scoops, toys, Easter knockers, sheaths for whetstones, clothes hangers, troughs for binding pigs, salt shakers and handles for axes and hammers. Most of these items were sold at markets or in carts in the villages.

Weaving was developed in the neighboring Nagórzany, and stone processing was developed in Nowotaniec. In Kuźmin, shingle has been made since time immemorial (to this day it is made with the use of electric tools) (...). The inhabitants of both Tyrawa (Solna and Wołoska) smelted grease and tar from tar pine trunks. Pottery was occupied in the nearby Mrzygłód from the 17th century to the 1960s. At the end of the 19th century, two inhabitants of Poraż also dealt in pottery.

The text comes from the study "INVENTORY OF CULTURAL RESOURCES OF THE BORDERLAND" realized by the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University for the District Museum in Rzeszów.

Author: Mr. Marcin Krowiak.

The history of pottery in Mrzygłód dates back to distant times. At the beginning of the 20th century, 60 potters worked in 30 workshops. During World War II, there were only 22 plants, and in 1954 only four. The last potter from Mrzygłód died in 2001.

Since World War I, the interest in pottery in the region decreased, which meant that this profession was discontinued in the 1960s. However, on the initiative of the LAG Dolina Sanu, a workshop of disappearing professions was established in 2019 to enable handicraft workshops and pot-making demonstrations.