Русский ремесленник

In Russia , since the end of XVII century it was widely known lace . Already in the XVIII century this kind artistic crafts on luchil-wide development. Fashion on the product, which complements the European-style clothes, led to capacity-shops, and then the factories to produce them, all the more come into the life of different layers of the population. Demand for these products has become so high that it became engaged in the manufacture not only in the city, but also in rural areas. So there was a number of centers of production as a typical on-native crafts, where seamstresses produced it for sale. Hand products carry through threads wound on Bobbin - wide-round wooden sticks with notches for winding yarns jibing are expert at creating the desired pattern. By way of lace products are divided into pairs and coupling. The first of these weave a few pair of bobbins, depending on the width of the band. When the coupling technique increases the number of bobbins in a few times and weave some parts of the pattern, which then connects with crochet hook.

In pair technique is usually carried out dimensional types of products: they can be measured and cut in the right quantity. Coupling technique is used primarily to perform piece products - tablecloths, napkins, curtains, additions to your clothing. In bobbins as lace, there are many different techniques. This polotnyanka, nasnovki, nets, pleteshki, spiders, etc.

Each of these techniques has some means of expression and the masters used as intended pattern. The main centers of Russian lace are the Vologda region, Eletskii district of Lipetsk region, the Soviet district of the Kirov region, and St Michael's district of Ryazan region. Their products are very popular, both in our country and abroad. For this center in the past been characterized mainly dimensional products, and the late XIX - early XX century. began to dominate the piece-work.

By request of buyers master lace valances performed, bedspreads, cushion pillows, as well as additions to the suit - bibs, collars, dushegrei, demonstrating the high performance art, the talent of a variety of patterns, exact nature of the product to its purpose. Thus, in the interior design products was robust with large parts of the ornament, wide rims, framing edge cover and capes. For clothing performed more subtle and refined techniques of weaving species that take into account in their work and modern masters of Vologda. Their products are constructed from conventional plant motifs that have become a continuous ornament, in which the pattern stands out clearly against the background of a transparent grid, forming a rhythmic accents that are uniformly dense pattern, then the lighter.

In most of the Vologda use of continuous vigorous movement pattern, the inclusion of the various techniques. As one can see the tablecloth and transparent polotnyanku, through which most often performed vilyushka (winding line), and dense nasnovki, and a variety of nets. In the 1950's in lace appear more unique products - panels, curtains, large-sized tablecloths. In addition to their ornamentation plant motifs are often introduced images of animals, birds, and, moreover, create thematic panels.

Kirov products perform as Vologda, on the bobbins. In the lace of the region use coupling technique of weaving, allowing a large and decorative items, and minor additions to the women's and children's clothing. It is used mainly floral ornament, but in contrast to the Vologda, he settled more patterned. Craftsmen use many razdelok, weavings, include different densities polotnyanki. At Kirov masters no clear selection pattern on a background grid. Grill is merged with a pattern, which makes the whole pattern becomes more elegance and virtuosity of the drawing. The motives of ornament are a star-rosette, the trefoils that focus rhythmic construction of the composition. Kirov masters and create unique works in which case the content is revealed through the image of symbolic female figures, birds, selected sparse background grid and surrounded by floral ornament.

Elets lace arose and began to develop only in the middle of the XIX century. Since then and until recently the range of products consisted mainly of additions to the women's clothing. He is now considerably expanded. Craftswomen Yelets equally fluent in the steam room and coupling technique. They have a high level of skill and art, which are used in a variety of collars, bibs, jackets, tablecloths, napkins and many other products.

Feature Yelets product is extraordinary subtlety and elegance of the pattern. For him typical very light and airy lattice connecting pattern; floral motifs are special features of transparency. More diverse in recent years has become the color of products. For a long time to perform Yelets black headscarf, in which drawing vegetable nature fits well into the triangular shape of things. Many products perform in gray, which makes the product even more ease and elegance. Along with the manufacturing of supplements to the costume in the fishery is constantly working to create interior items. Most often it is - panels, curtains, which attracted the attention not only an original interpretation of the theme, but the product itself, astonishing wealth of techniques and subtlety of execution.

Specific features characterized by color Mihailovskaya dimensional products in the past it with strips Weaving is widely used in the design of women's traditional clothing. Michael's products are of a special technique. It uses only numerical method lace, carried out without many pixels in a row of threads. The pattern of their built mainly from simple fan-shaped motifs, round rosettes, ruffles various lattices. The attractiveness of this species is its color scheme, built on a combination of red, green, blue, gray and black tones. And now it has not lost its value. His eagerly bought and used for decoration of modern clothing and utilitarian and decorative items: napkins, tablecloths, tracks.