Kalotaszeg: a historical/ethnographic region of forty Hungarian-speaking Calvinist villages to the west of Kolozsvár/Cluj in Transylvania. The peasants of the villages are mostly farmers, with some people employed in logging, beef-cattle raising, and handicrafts. The region is famous for its rich and varied folk art (architecture, peasant wear, embroidery and woodcarving). It was the vogue of Kalotaszeg folk art that opened the door to the discovery of Hungarian folk art as such in the 1880s. The embroidery of Kalotaszeg was famed throughout Europe, and Kalotaszeg folk art as a whole had considerable influence on Hungarian Art Nouveau applied arts, architecture, and graphics, as well as the art of the Gödöllô School.