From an early age, sewing and knitting skills have been given to future hostesses. History, culture, traditions and customs, folk masters personified in crafts. Man-made things retain the greatness and identity of the Russian people, aspirations and dreams.
Folk crafts and crafts
A man with ancient times sought a self-expression and mastered various types of creativity. Since the invention of needles in the 11th century embroidery appeared. Embroidery decorated with clothes and household items. This ancient art is popular to today. The craftsmen create pictures where all the color shades are created not with paints, as in painting, but threads.
Popular architecture was popular in Russia. Carving on the woods of Valvali platbands and fences. Houses in such a framed resembled fabulous tales. From the soft and militant linden, the craftsmen cut out dolls, bird figures and fairy-tale characters, mastered whistles, shoes and kitchen utensils.
Popular wooden spoons were popular. Before the appearance of aluminum cutlery, wood products were the most running items in Russian cuisine.
From Wawa, the baskets and boxes are mastered, and from the scroll of the lapti. Now such shoes are a souvenir product, and in the old days they were the necessary subject of "wardrobe" of each peasant. And what only craftsmen did not create from Berestov!
Of this natural material, the whole container was made under the bulk products: Tuesks, Solonki, sugarians. In birch boxes stored butter, cheeses, bread, even milk and drinks.
Overhead dolls
Popular folk crafts in Russia were rag-shabeled dolls. These are traditional Slavic crafts that have a certain symbolism. Each doll has its own purpose:
- "For happiness," this is a female mascot
- "Family", - Assistant in creating a family and keeper for already created
- "Breeding", - Symbol of wealth
- "Zhalannica", - Assistant in the implementation of conceived
- "The herbits" - protects the house and creates a comfort.
There are also the names of the Pupa "Vessenka", "comforter", "Pelenca" and others. Dolls dressed up, but the face was not depicted. According to beliefs, it was believed that the faceless inanimate doll is not available for the instill in her uncomfortable forces and evil spirits.
The crawl was created from the flasks from old clothes, believed that the worn things keep human warmth and their own distils the misfortune. The dolls had a simple design, but it was necessarily attended by the outlines of the female figure and a long braid.
The rag dolls were an analogue of ritual figures associated with sufficient, fertility, peace and frets in the house, reverence of motherhood. A child from an early age was aware of the meaning of the mother, her role to give life.
The toy's head was stuffed with a gun, straw, flap. Dress, apron and handkerchiefs were different in color. Decorated with clothes with laces, embroidery. In the form of dolls, the nature of classes was reflected. Funny toys brought good luck to the house, expelled the disease, comforted kids. Now these cute souvenirs are immersed in the mysterious world of the ancestors, the originality of their culture.
Clay crafts
Potter in the old days were revered by people. They produced economic utensils, dishes, and from the remnants of clay masters toys. Clay mined near the village. Plastic fatty clay without impurities is located in the ground between the layers of the chernozem and the sand. It was soaked in a wooden trough, diluted with boiling water, stirred and laid out on a small layer of ashes.
Mixed to homogeneous consistency. From the clay mass, they created the images surrounding them: pets, the young lady of peasants, birds and animals. Bear with a barrel of honey became a symbol of good, birds brought happiness into the house, and the horses personified a rich harvest.
Figures were burned in a Russian stove, where dry firewood created coals with a temperature of 600 - 700 degrees.
In the morning of the cooled stove, they took the products and dipped them into the lime solution. After drying, crafts were painted by natural means - paint from the beam onion husk, soot extracted from a pipe, beetted juice. Experienced masters felt clay, her structure. In each winted toy, the hand and soul of the wizard felt.
Straw masterpieces
Straw is trunks of cereals. The basis of the toy for peasant children served a beam of straw, folded in half and tied by a harness. The fan of the straw was reminded of sundress. Such were the first straw creations.
Over time, this type of creativity has been improved, there were ideas for creating not only human images, but also all sorts of animals, zlatogric horses, deer.
Skilled possession of weaving and artistic taste, fantasy and ingenuity of talented people led to the creation of wonderful plates, caskets, chests, hoops, bracelets and a variety of other original souvenirs.
Crafts from the material that is aligned with the Sun, the Mother Human Human Human Hands, create a certain style of fashionable interior.
Toy from wood
Plots from the surrounding life became the topic of creating wooden crafts. In the villages, children played dolls made with an ax. With the advent of the plane and other wood tools, toys began to transform and improve.
Neva, which are now made from plastic, first appeared in the 19th century. Then they were made of wood. They were painted by the images of merchants, clowns, funny bbw. Two halves cut out of the linden with a knife, inside a round disc was dripping. Burned both parts, painted, dried and covered with varnish. This traditional Russian toy for many generations of children was the first toy in life.
Old folk traditions are reborn again. Russian art that dreamed in grandmother's chests, becomes more popular every year. It causes admiration among foreigners and pride in the descendants. Now there are many sites on the Internet, where on master classes it is displayed in detail and describes how to make the folk craft itself.
Stock Foto A selection of unusual Russian folk crafts
