Log villages burn. Čičmany burned in 1907, and then in 1921 fire took the whole lower end. The village could have rebuilt in brick, as most places did — and it did not: with state money and designs by Dušan Jurkovič the houses went back up in log, and the walls were painted again. This is the point most retellings skip: the dense, whole-wall ornament seen on Čičmany today dates from that rebuilding, not from some remote past, and it follows the embroidery patterns of the local costume. The tradition is real and locally made; it is about a hundred years old, not a thousand.Zrubové dediny horia. Čičmany horeli v roku 1907 a v roku 1921 vzal oheň celý dolný koniec. Obec mohla postaviť tehlové domy, ako to vtedy robila väčšina — a neurobila to: za štátne peniaze a podľa návrhov Dušana Jurkoviča vyrástli domy znovu zo zrubov a steny znovu pomaľovali. Práve toto väčšina prerozprávaní vynecháva: hustý ornament pokrývajúci celé steny, aký v Čičmanoch vidno dnes, pochádza z tejto obnovy, nie z dávnoveku, a kopíruje výšivku miestneho kroja. Tradícia je pravá a domáca; má však asi sto rokov, nie tisíc.
