A part of the population of Myjava and its environs lived on trade. They carried goods and, mainly they sold mill sacks in mills of a prevailing part of the territory of Austria-Hungary. A folk-architecture was one of the characteristic features of the material culture of the inhabitants of Myjava and Myjava Hill-Country. It was represented by ground-floor and storeyed houses with an uncountable number of kinds and shapes. Gabled (oblique triangular), originally straw roofs of buildings were one common sign of them and, mainly building material - clay, in shape of unburnt bricks. A clay plaster was often used. It would be of earthy colour, and created areas were divided by horizontal and vertical strips. Sometimes, houses were decorated only by white borders around windows and doors.
The interior was interesting too - earthen, later wooden board floors, earthen whitewashed plaster of walls, wooden joist ceilings, doors of board frames and small windows created together with the furniture of that day, a cosy interior of the Myjava house. A fireplace was a prevailing element of constructions of the interiors. In the oldest houses it would stand in the corner of the room on a stand (open fireplace), and another one behind it in a stove (shut fireplace). In the course of the 18th and 19th centuries, fireplace is being situated outside, to an anteroom, so called ”pitvor” that was later changed into a kitchen. The main, and in the past the only place of social life was the living room. In the corner there used to be a bench and a table. The most important place belonged to the head of a family - farmer. His authority in the family would be so expressed, as there used to live also families of married sons or daughters in a common households.
One of the culminating expressions of the material culture of the Myjava people was a national costume. Its characteristic sign is a simplicity of the material, a temperance of colours and adornments. There were two kinds of it - a civic costume put on in Myjava-town, and a costume put on on farms. Apart from it, the costume was difference in age and social position. In the development of the Myjava national costume there we can see several stages connected mainly with the use of new materials. The original cut has not been changed, but new materials often caused that the impression was more aesthetic. At present, we can see the folk-costume only in folklore groups and, from time to time, parts of it put on older women.
The folkloric traditions were seen also in cooking.