My great-grandmother, Dobrikov Taisiya Matveyevna, was born on January 7, 1906 in p. Kolyvan Novosibirsk region.
Since childhood, a thrust awakened for sewing, and she began to try to sew her mother on a typewriter (an old sewing machine with a manual drive). Shears local ladies mainly underwear (pantalonons, lower skirts, lower shoes and combinations). Shears on its own patterns, decorated with embroidery, ruffles, lace and ribbons.
During the collectivization period, I had to give a sewing machine in the community, which was one of the reasons for moving to Novosibirsk (1929). There, she tripled into the student to the master. Then - the sewing workshop, the model shop, where he worked before the war (but she really wanted to conduct each order alone: from the sketch to the finished product, pick buttons and threads themselves). After the war, she had to quit and work independently at home.
Customers were a lot: the wives of officers and artists of the Novosibirsk theater, everything went on recommendations.
As my grandmother recalls (her daughter), the dresser was always hammered by cutting fabrics and until late at night did not resume the knocking out a knockout (now it was though an old, but the singer with a foot drive).
And suddenly it became possible to increase his skill: in the house of officers on the Red Avenue, a circle "Machine embroidery" was gained. "My great-grandmother became the best in the course.
And here I imagine her graduation album.
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