Decorative Chopping Boards *lovely Cats*
Russian Wooden Painting Gorodets
These lovely panels have been handpainted by Russian craftsmen in the best traditions of the Russian Folk art style called Gorodets.
Painting on the wood from Gorodets is a famous folk craft Nighegorodskiy region. It started developing in the second half of the XIXth century in the villages by the river Usola near the town of Gorodets. Spinning wheels baskets and boxes for the storage of yarn, children’s chairs and some utensils were decorated whith the painting.
Nowadays “Gorodetskaya rospis” (Gorodetskaya painting) is the only enterprise producing art products with the traditional painting. This is a craft with one hundred and half year’s history, alive developing phenomenon of our modern national culture strongly connected both with the past and the present life of the people.
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| Decorative Chopping Board*lovely Cats* |
115 mm (5 in) |
225 mm (9 in) |
250 gr (9 oz) |
£ 11.20 |
€ 14.90 |
$ 22.40 |
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