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Vologda lace - a special phenomenon in the folk art of the Russian North. The richness and variety of patterns, clean lines, the rhythm of ornaments, high skill - that is their artistic originality. About Vologda lace composed poems and songs, a movie, a colorful booklets. Vologda lace is known all over the world for a long time, it embodied the glory of Russian lace.
The word "lace" comes from the "surround", to decorate the elegant finishing edge clothing and other items from the tissues. Lace was known in Russia long ago. They are occupied by women of all classes. The dress of kings, princes and boyars lace of gold, silver and silk threads, used in traditional clothes of linen lace yarn, and the end of XIX century - from cotton yarns.

Definition

Characteristically Ustyug popular art, known here since the end of XVIII century. The place of its existence was not a city, a suburban village located on the opposite shore of the Great Ustyug Northern Dvina. In the name of the river flowing here Shemogsy, wood bark is sometimes referred to as "shemogodskoy thread. In the villages located on the shores of Shemogsy, in the XVIII century, farmers have learned the art of penetrating the slots and stamping on birch bark.
High skill of carving on the bark was famous shemogodskaya d Kurovo-Navolok, and the most talented carver and artist was IA Boar, a farmer of this famous village.

Palekh's artel in 1950's On the eve of the Paris International Exhibition of Decorative Arts in 1925 decided to implement the idea of creating a new Palekh Artel. Proposal A. Glazunov - one of the initiators of her Moscow residence permit Artel not receive support. Decided to found her in Palekh.
December 5, 1924 in Palekh, in the home AV Kotuhina, held an organizational meeting (with Glazunov) Gangs of ancient paintings. The first composition was: Ivan Golikov, Ivan Bakanov brothers Zubkov, Ivan Markichev brothers Kotuhiny.

Black as a type of metal known in Russia since the tenth century. Archaeological materials provide the richest collections of silver and gold, decorated with thin delicate ornaments, induced by engraved or embossed with the mob.
Technology of the mob is that the black alloy of silver, copper, lead and sulfur fused to base metal - silver or gold, to achieve color contrast. In the base metal must be made a slight indentation method engraving, embossing or etching.
There are several variants of the technological preparation, attachment and fusion of the mob. The most ancient and effective of them, preserved and used by masters of the Great Ustyug.

Delicate and pure sound of the Valdai bell mellifluous rights for over 500 years. You've heard their melodious ringing? Do you know the history of these bells came to us from the depths of the centuries?
Beautiful legend says that Valdai bells appeared in 1478. It was then on the orders of Tsar Ivan III, Sofia belfry was removed Novgorod veche bell, and sent to Moscow to sound, he agrees with all the Russian bells and preached to more than freemen. But as far as Moscow has not got a prisoner. At one of the slopes of the Valdai mountain sled, which carried a bell, rolled down, the frightened horses dashed off at a gallop, the bell fell off the wagon, and falling into a ravine, smashed to smithereens. From the debris and were cast early Valdai bells.