Russian style

Having thrown a net into the bottomless depths of the Internet, I found an incredible pearl — porcelain dolls by Alexandra Koukinova. This woman is an Artist, starting with a capital letter, and her works, forgive for being pompous, are masterpieces! Her dolls are amazing, graceful, mysterious and ...

In their childhood, many Russian girls reading or listening to fairy tales or watching cartoons dreamed of becoming a princess or Vasilisa the Beautiful. Perhaps, when I became an adult, the paintings of Russian young ladies by Konstantin Makovsky began to bring me back to my childhood, to those ...

Folk clothes are not just a phenomenon of material culture, but also of spiritual culture associated with beliefs and idealistic views of people. You need to know how to read traditional clothes, they can tell us many things about the area of residence, cultural development and interaction with ...

Photos made by Maria Lipina from Perm are like illustrations to Russian folk tales. In these models you can see the lines of Vasilisa the Beautiful, the Frog princess, Elena the Wise, Princess Nesmeyana and Snow White in Russian version... And among them we see impressing Moscow princesses, ladies ...

How to preserve the tradition staying relevant? Is it possible to reconcile the Russian style with European trends? Designers Levadnaja Details have given the answer to these questions again by presenting Autumn/Winter Collection 2019 at Fashion Week in Moscow. The Levadnaja Details brand was ...

Let's make a little magic and turn Gzhel painting into sculpting!Find these: polymer clay: blue, dark blue, white, transparent white clay, liquid plastic work surface (tile, paper) tools (stick, dots, blade) dry pastel: blue, dark blue, white brushes, wipes gloves if you need varnish oven ...

Krupenichka used to be created immediately after harvest. Its task was to keep the best grain until the next planting season. But there is another deeper meaning: to preserve and enhance all what is valued in a family. Take all you see in the picture below: - white cotton fabric (25 x 65 cm) - red ...

I want to bring to your attention a ten-handed helper doll. A ten-handed halper helps with housework. This doll has many hands, the work goes with a swing. That is an amulet doll, so before making it, tune in to something really good, come back to your feminine nature — pг all worries aside, relax ...

A doll on a spoon is a toy doll. It was done in haste to let mothers do thier housework. This is a girl doll. It is called a doll on the spoon as a wooden spoon serves the base. You need - spoon - 3 natural pieces of cloth - lace (optional) - ribbon   Wrap a spoon in a cloth (or sheet ...

A Friday doll is made of sticks and wool. Friday is a patroness of needlewomen in the Russian pagan mythology. Materials - woolen yarn - cotton threads - sticks lay sticks as a cross and twist its middle with 3 crosses. Twist all sticks: from the middle to the right, then back, then to the ...

It all started when I ran out of gift envelopes for bookmarks. And found a way out this way. 1. Printed a Petrykivka pattern and a layout of a scrapbook envelope.         2. Folded along the lines, glued with double sided sticky tape, put a bookmark with description 3. Such long envelopes ...

When I work in my studio, it's far from perfect order. Threads, laces, scissors, needles, fabric and a lot of stuff. And all this should be at hand. I often look for a place where to put the phone while charging. So the idea was to find the place. By the way, this thing is very useful on trips. ...