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The cottage from Daleszyce was built in 1892 by Franciszek Malarecki, who was then the owner of 9 morgas (1 morga = 0,56 hectare) of land. In the open-air museum the cottage forms part of the frontage of a small town market square. It is a single-bayed, narrow-fronted building (with the entrance in the gable wall), with the following layout of rooms: hallway – living room – cowshed. The cottage’s notched-corner log walls were built from pine wood. The three-slope roof is covered by a double layer of aspen shingles, with a board-covered gable overlooking the yard. The entrance to the homestead leads through a gate with a characteristic shingle roof over it. The hallway, with an additional entrance leading to the yard, houses the summer kitchen. The main stove situated in the dwelling room was built from broken stone and brick joined with clay binding. In the living room, the date of the cottage’s construction and the sign ”IHS” are carved in the central beam (”the principal beam”). The inscription is a declaration of faith and was aimed at ensuring that God offered protection to residents of the house.

A small-town cobbler’s workshop has been re-created in the living room. Among shoes to be repaired around the workshop one can also see: shoemaker’s chisels and knives, rasps, the blacking for shoe soles, shoemaker’s lasts, shoe stretchers, pincers and hammers. A small cowshed was built which shared a common roof with the residential house.

The shoemaking traditions in Daleszyce originated in the sixteenth century. Shoemaking was an additional occupation for many farm owners who chiefly earned their living working on a small piece of land and on poor farms.