This happy couple sure will bring a smile to your face! Both dolls are totally handturned and handpainted by skillful Russian craftsmen.
Since XIV century the Gorodets artists decorate hundreds river boats with fretwork of relief vegetation ornament, Sirin-birds, lions and mermaids. XIX century was the time of astounding growth in carving art. Many generations of carvers worked on artistic fretwork. Little by little the fretwork inculcated in peasants life. Different decorations were practically on every house. Designing modern goods Gorodets artists use traditional ways of blind fretwork, three-edged cutting, contour. Plastic subject of spinning, spice-cake fretwork - are found in their works very often. Gorodets spinning wheel had her own peculiarity. For decorating spinning wheel artists used peculiar technique v incrustation, that was not usual for folk art. Having just two shades of wood and simple tools folk skilled craftsmen turned spinning wheel into picture - a decorative panel. Gorodets carvers keep and develop the folk art ably, carrying out unique author-s works. Here you can see familiar to us rich curly boughs, snow leopards, amulets, Sirin-birds, rosette from age-old images of nizhegorodsky plastic art. We can-t leave Gorodets toy without any attention. Bright painted horses, horsemen, ladies, cavaliers continue the folk toy tradition.
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