Wedding towel " for a happy share"

The main purpose of the towel ritual. Masters for each significant rite embroidered towels, putting in patterns of symbolism and trying to make them as nice as possible. After performing the ritual function, the towel decorated the hut and served not only as a talisman, but also as a decorative element.

A special role was played by the towel in the wedding ceremony as one of the most important attributes. Wedding towels were prepared in shniki were given to the elders, tied over their shoulders, if they came to an agreement at the betrothal. Often both the young woman and the friend were belted with a towel instead of a belt-the ends in front.
During the wedding, the hands of the young people were tied with a towel, wishing them mutual understanding, a happy and long marital path. At a wedding, meeting young people, they covered the road from the threshold to the table with a towel, or even from the gate to the door of the hut; sometimes a towel was laid in front of the entrance to the Church.
But the most important thing was the towel on which parents blessed the young. Such a rushnik is a special Shrine, which was not shown to outsiders and was preserved as the Apple of the eye, passing from generation to generation.
Of no small importance was the white embroidered towel on which the young people were supposed to stand under the crown. Under this rushnik relatives of the groom put silver coins and wheat – for happiness and wealth. This towel then hung the image or hung it in a prominent place in the greenhouse.

Towel made of bleached Belarusian linen. Bilateral, clean inside out. Embroidery machine.

Embellished lace.