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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.

In the clothing was particularly elegant festive costume. It included embroidered homespun linen shirt with a wide woven pattern on the hem and sleeves, aprons - zapony, plaid skirts, shushpany, multicolored woven belts and much more. Among the household products can be identified linen tablecloth-patterned tabletops with proshvoy middle, towels, elegant valances, rugs, runners, bedspreads. Comparing modern products Weaving with similar products of the last century can see the stability of traditional techniques and related artistic features.
Manual patterned art of this type do not require sophisticated equipment. The most common was a wooden machine - Krosno, without shuttle boxes remizkami (Nitchenko) and short-circuits footrests. With this primitive equipment skilled seamstress and now produce a variety of products, using simple and complex methods of weaving. In the past, it made extensive use of flax, hemp, wool, and later - the purchase worsted, cotton threads.
Artistic solution patterned fabrics are more dependent on the technique of weaving, since the texture of the fabric, its ornamental solution determined by specific types of filling machine, the inclusion of non-ferrous prosnovok additional wefts. In Russian patterned skills were widely distributed species such as mortgages, abusive, election, perebornoe, remiznoe. By kinds of skill and stylistic features of the ornament highlights the art of the Russian North, which includes theArkhangelsk, Vologda, Pskov, Novgorod region. It is characterized by fine needlework, the graphical elaboration of the elements of the ornament.
The stark and restrained colors on the northern nature was largely determined by the nature of works of folk art, including the patterned material. They feel a certain stinginess decoration. Color pattern fills are usually only a small part of products, often the edge is basically the same field remains smooth - white or severe. In the weaving pattern holds almost always red weft on a light background, and sometimes - just white on white, and red color in the pattern because of the low density is seen muted, slightly pink. These patterns can be found a variety of reasons. In one image we see strongly altered geometrised figures of people, birds, horses and trees. Next to them is almost always placed geometric ornament, built on a combination of diamonds, squares.
Products of the central southern regions of Russia more dense on the patterns and more succulent and rich in color. The clothes often to increase the sonority of decorative patterns complementary embroidery, stripes of colored ribbons and braid. This was emphasized by the intensity of color, gave the clothes a great elegance. In the Volga area for a long time have developed their own stylistic features Weaving, for which particularly characterized by increased smartness and iridescence.
Contemporary patterned art of this type has been developing very actively. This is explained by the fact that things made by hand, differ from the machine uniqueness of composition and color palette, rich ornaments, a variety of structural interweaving.
For Weaving typical succession of local artistic traditions developed over many centuries. It is an organic part of modern substantive impact, and this augurs well for its future development. The unity of function and form of things, its artistic image and the material - the achievement of traditional art, providing life Weaving, not only today but in the future.