A towel with an oberezhnaya cross-stitch pattern of the Ust-Kachka village of the Kama region

Towel of Ust-Kachka village of Perm district of Perm Krai with oberezhnaya cross-stitch

Such a sacred holiday gift will help You and Your family to create comfort, joy and protection in Your family.
Using the centuries-tested protective towels will allow You to touch the parts of the decoration of the Russian home, bring back the beauty of Russian life in our modern apartments, apartments and cottages.
Touching it every day, You will be able to feel the connection of times, to feel part of their homeland.
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Towel /towel/ is one of the versatile and widely used items in the traditional culture of the Russians of Perm Kama region.
Towel - the subject of mundane and ritual purposes.
Rocketery and horselike under such dialectal names in the Kama area is known to towels for the kitchen and for wiping hands.

This is a lightweight replica of an ethnographic towel sample from the village of Ust-Kachka, Perm district, Perm Krai.

A towel is a decorative canvas made of homespun or factory canvas, embroidered with various patterns and ornaments. Here you can buy a towel made of bleached cotton towel cloth with traditional ritual embroidery.
An embroidered linen, cotton towel is a very symbolic thing and multi—valued. It not only beautifies everyday life, but is a symbolic reminder of the invisible ties with the ancestors. It accompanies man in the most important moments of his life — birth, baptism, wedding... Towel – part of the folk culture and folk art of the Slavs, a subject of everyday and ceremonial purposes; shall have the meaning way, road connections, linking. In the rites acts as the gift, talisman, curtain, decoration, holiday symbol, a landmark and has a hailer function.
It is a pity that now ancient Slavic tradition almost forgotten, but still towels decorate the home, they are used in a variety of ceremonies in some regions of modern Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
Towels clean red corner of the hut or huts, Bojnice, door and window openings, and decorate the walls. Regional differences regarding the towels, were carefully preserved when moving to another area.
Early in our area (the Perm land) is born, the girl took the towel, which is then hung above the cradle.
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This towel is embroidered with a pattern characteristic of the artistic traditions of towel ornamentation in the Perm region, namely, the village of Ust-Kachka. The pattern created on the towels and the bed reflects the weaving accessories that existed in every house, the berdo, the weaving mill. Such a pattern can bring peace and well-being to the family, give warmth to the hearth.
Red is the color of sun, warmth and beauty.
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