Undeservedly forgotten crafts

If you ask the modern Russians what crafts he knows he is likely to primarily be named Gzhel, Khokhloma, Zhostovo painting. In fact, there is an incredibly huge number of fields in Russia. And many of them, despite their popularity, unjustly left in the shade. A pity, because they are incredibly distinctive and original.

Abashevskaya toy

These whistles in the form of a fantastic animal with a long neck and usually multistage horns are like nothing else. Fishing originated in the middle of the last century in the village Abashevo Penza province whose inhabitants earned the manufacture of pottery. Among rural craftsmen Abashevo toys were a lot of conservatives, and it is believed that the multistage horn, traditionally found in the motives of artists, symbolize a ladder to God.

Secrets of these figures are usually passed from generation to generation. Now this fish is not as common as they used to.

Enamel

Painting on white enamel, called "enamel" in the old days, it is often used in jewelry manufacturing. This is a pretty old fishing that originated about 400 years ago near Vologda, and were developed in Rostov Veliky. Initially, master product depicted in miniature icons, but subsequently began to appear natural motifs (flowers, birds, and so on. P.).

for the manufacture of enamel Masters (as in the old days in Russia called enamel) are still working in Vologda and Rostov, and similar products can be found on sale in the souvenir shops.

Kostroma filigree

Very interesting jewelry technique called "filigree" is a "weaving" of patterns of the finest metallic threads. In Russia, it has been known since the IX century. Usually, for the manufacture of products (which may be human figures, and cup holders, and jewelry) masters use clean plastic metals - gold, copper, silver.

There are two types of filigree - delicate (for fine jewelry) and soldered on the finished basis (to decorate everyday items - trays, vases, etc...).

The most famous masters of this craft lived in the village of Red Kostroma province. Until now, there exists the factory that produces products of different kinds of metal with filigree technique.

Tomsk elm

This type of fishing as weaving birchbark, was initially distributed to the northern masters - Vologda, Novgorod and Arkhangelsk. However, at the end of the XVIII century the natives of the Arkhangelsk province, settled in the Tomsk region, became the ancestors of art to create a very original and recognizable product of embossed and carved birch bark.

Emboss do manually using stamping, also used elm trench. As an ornament usually depicted twigs, leaves, flowers.

Bogorodskaya toy

This type of fishing has arisen, as the name implies, in the village of Bogorodskoye. It is located in the Moscow region, and even on his coat of arms imprinted wooden figures - a man and a bear. The first of these toys in the village started to do roughly the second half of the XVIII century, and finally formed the fishery to the beginning of the XIX century. The most common characters portrayed by masters Bogorodskaya toys - a man (often with an ax) and a teddy bear. There are also animals - squirrels, rabbits, hens, roosters. These toys are usually cut from soft wood.

In Bogorodskaya toy has two characteristics: first, it is usually not stain, and secondly, in its classic version of it mobile. If you pull the rope tied to the toy, the character begins to make a uniform movement. A well-known example of this toy - chickens that peck grain, or a lumberjack, who then raises, it lowers his ax.

Mezen painting

This is a very old kind of arts and crafts of northern masters. Art was born off the coast of the Mezen River.

The figures (mostly horse and deer) are represented schematically by applying dashes, crosses, short curls and the like .. It is usually used two colors -. Red and black. This painting masters often decorated household items. Fishing was common at the turn of XIX -XX centuries, but almost came after the revolution to nothing and was revived only in 1960.

Boretsky painting

This kind of painting that emerged in the town Borok Shenkursvogo County, there are more than one hundred years. So far in these parts, there are talented artists who have received the secrets of skill from their fathers and grandfathers.

Ornament painting consists of triangles, diamonds, swirls, circles, and the colors are usually used various - brown, red, green, yellow, rarely - blue.

Shemogodskaya thread

Shemogodskaya thread, or as it is also called "birch bark lace" is a technique through the slit and stamping on the bark. The greatest development of the fishery was in the XVIII century through art masters Shemogodskoy parish Velikoustyugsky County.

Most often such carvings decorated boxes, tueski, chests. When the pattern is usually observed strict symmetry. Until now, such products can be found on sale in the souvenir shops of the Great Ustyug and Vologda region as a whole.