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Techniques khokhloma painting

You probably already noticed the main feature khokhloma painting: the artist never draw the contours in advance of clear patterns. Even the portrayal of small parts, which need a very thin line, bar, immediately becomes a soft brush. Therefore, all lines in the paintings made without the prior drawing, - a colorful brush strokes, they are light and mobile.

This painting directly from the hand brush and bare florid khokhloma herbs, soft outlines of petals and leaves. It should be a very great skill, precision hands and eyes in order to thin brush to these graceful lines and streaks, to write some very complex drawing patterns. Therefore, in the works of students often blurry and rough edges, some awkward bends. To achieve the accuracy of the line, they draw first on a piece of glass: it is easier to fix the work, erasing unsuccessful.

Golden Khokhloma.

For one of the oldest types of craft are leather products, fur products. In the Far North since time immemorial was formed and reached a high level of skill of making artistic production of reindeer skins, campuses, furs, fur-bearing animals, pelts of sea animals (seals), as well as the manufacture of homemade deerskin or elk suede - rovduga. On the boundless expanse of the North are living people with a small number, but each of the nations has its own ancient national culture and its rituals and customs, their songs and dances, their methods of decorative design of household products.

In our country very well-developed carpet. In Russia, has long been originated skill for making a wide variety of pile and palace products, fulling felts, mats, patterned large felt mats. Every nation, this product not only had some utilitarian purpose, but also decorate their homes, gave him a national traits. For the implementation of technology it is close to the traditional weaving, as for the production of products using the same machines as in weaving, as well as perform operations winding yarn, doubling and Fiber yarns Warping basis.

One of the traditional forms of folk art is weaving. Patterned tablecloths, table tops, towels were known in the XVII century. However, the most complete picture of the nature of the crafts of various regions can be based on the XIX-XX centuries. Patterned architecture - vivid contemporary art.

In many areas, and now continue to perform original products using traditional methods of weaving. Various kinds of Weaving possess many masters, living in rural areas of the Arkhangelsk, Nizhny Novgorod and Ryazan regions. The Russian population remained perfect on artistic expression patterns of ancient handicrafts. Some of them are connected with an ensemble of folk costumes, mostly female, others are patterned products for home decoration.