What today is denoted by the foreign word "Handmade", in the Soviet Union was simple: "Needlework". Given that the choice of goods in the stores was small, homemade vases, caskets, hanging curtains in the doorway and small trinkets were always found in apartments suitable for themselves. Interestingly, with a huge selection of utility materials, only some models acquired popularity.
Weaving from droppers
This skill can be considered part of a peculiar hospital subculture, formed in the USSR in the second half of the 20th century. Experience and techniques were transmitted directly in the wards from "Old-timers" to "novice". Everyone who lay in Soviet medical institutions was probably had the opportunity to meet the "media" of this technique. From the hospitals of the crafts, of course, then came across towards the orders and most often decorated the windshields of cars or dust on the shelves. Why this technique has become precisely hospital entertainment, in principle it is clear - only there people had two important components in the excess: unnecessary tubes from droppers and free time.
In fact, the technique of weaving from drippers is nodes of Macrame. However, an ancient novel weaving, adapted to plastic tubes, did not differ in a variety of models, types of "hospital souvenirs" was not too much . More rare - frogs and owls. Special chic was considered painting a finished product. She was done with the help of mangartage, iodine and greenflower (an excellent example of adapting mastery to the habitat).
From postcards
In any Soviet family, you could find packs of old postcards. Bright pictures made of thick paper gradually began to use in needlework. Most often of them are caskets. The most old, probably, the technique at which the carved parts of the product are simply stitched by decorative stitches. At the same time, the drawings themselves began to play an important role, so they needed to select them carefully.
In the 1980s, Soviet women covered the "Cutlery epidemic" - among the needlewomen there was an original method of manufacturing a new type of craft. This method today could be called "modular origami", perhaps it was from there he was borrowed, although he also resembles a weaving from Beresta. The postcards cut into several parts were in separate details and then connected to a bright "paper constructor". So it was possible to collect a vase or swall as a global project - curtains in the doorway, however, for the last postcard I had to collect on all families.
There was another variation on the topic of the curtain. In this case, deficit, but such favorite bamboo curtains are imitated. Strips from postcards were twisted and fastened with each other using ordinary stationery clips. Often, such a needlework became a real family case, which allowed to pass long evenings.
From matches
Matching houses require skills and great perfection. Perhaps this is the only look of crafts from this selection, which can be alive today alive and developing. Modern matchmaking masters create real masterpieces from this lung and high-mountainous material. Soviet schoolchildren most often knew how to make small houses, and the gurus of this art was waiting for a house with a mill.
From wire
This kind of crafts mostly mastered the boys. Some lucky the material issued parents, and the rest coped themselves - they were looking for a wire where they would have. This art was distinguished by complete freedom. It had popular models, but in principle, the masters were free in their fantasies, so they were created diverse and with a soul.
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