These Russian beauty will bring a smile to your face and lift your spirit. These marvelous matryoshkas are original containers for bottle of vodka so they will be a nice decoration for your holiday table! Matryoshka, traditional Russian gift, is fully handturned and handpainted by craftsmen from Gorodets.
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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