Русский ремесленник

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.

Particularly well is an art developed in the mountainous regions of our country, where the wool is actively used in the manufacture of clothing and household items. By Technology Implementation carpet is divided into palace and nap. The first of these products have a bilateral plain weave, but due to a thick woolen yarn patterned duck creates an even zastilistaya structure, completely covering the cotton base (CORD). When palace technology implementation pattern is formed only in color. Ornament mostly palace production consists of geometric shapes and a conventional plant motifs, images of birds, animals, monuments and even human figures.

Napped products are hand made and back sides are smooth, but with the face covered with a nap from 3 to 6 mm, which is formed by knitting knots colored woolen thread. In their implementation used three types of nodes - a double, one and a half and combined. After the imposition of several rows of carpet trims the tips of their special scissors, ensuring a smooth surface of the carpet. Pile carpet weaving technique has its own particular expressive means. With it you can not only geometric and floral ornament, but the complicated subject compositions.

Carpet-making was also characteristic for the central Russian regions -Voronezh, Belgorod and Kursk regions in particular. Here the art of manufacturing these products began in the XVI - XVII centuries. And fishing formed in the XVIII century. Many followers of this art form, continuing the traditions of peasant carpet Kursk region, perform lint carpets with bright floral patterns. They are characterized by production of large, settled volume floral-rose, poppy, tulip. They are executed in pink-red color that stands out very clearly on a black background.

The beginning of XX century, this fishery has developed particularly rapidly. Vivid products enjoy an extremely high demand from different segments of the population. They were hanged on the walls, steles on the floor, they covered wagons. Is no accident certain products and known as «toboggan». Development of fisheries contributed to the opening of Kursk province zemstvo special school masters carpet.

Lint Kursk products, ancient and modern, are made in the counting palasnoy technique for hand vertical lathes. Modern masters are making a lot of new and artistic and stylistic solution products, and in the process of its manufacture. Most of the carpet is now running on the pattern. This allows you to play not only ornamental, but also complex thematic compositions.