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National Art Crafts of Chuvashia
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Weaving Weaving was distributed in Chuvashia in XVII-th century. Raw materials for patterned weaving are flax, hemp, the sheep wool, silk syrec. Here there was a strict colour of patterns and fancy of the decision. Patterned weaving is one of the most ancient and widely widespread kinds of national art. Surprising creativity, riches and imagination open us weaved patterns created by the hands of the Chuvash women. It was possible not only to see them, but also to read.The engineering of the Chuvash patterned weaving has three versions, which are characteristic for the Chuvash people: two-colour weaving - which is the most ancient design - red pattern on a white field; polychromic - weaved by a wool of bright colours pattern on a white background,; the second kind of polychromic weaving - multi - colour pattern on a red background, weaved by a wool with a paper. Weaving was used not only in manufacturing fabrics and carpets, coverlets and tracks, but also at manufacturing belts(zones), surpans, frontlet to headgears, napkins etc. Geometrical and vegetative patterns consisting of figures" eternal tree of life ", "sky", "star", and the figures of animals and birds form the design of weaved thing. People usually use such colours as red, black, dark blue, green, white etc. Up to the XIXth century the fabrics of home manufacture were mainly used. While the vegetative paints of own manufacturing applied, The colouring of a yarn was complex enough (difficult enough) and labour-consuming process and the canvas were basically white. Aniline paints gradually penetrate into a life of the Chuvash people, and a yarn is painted. For today, despite of all the difficulties of manufacture and financing, the Chuvash national weaving revives and is enriched. And the work of the weavers deserves the highest rating. |
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