Masters of handicrafts

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From the series Portrait of the Master. Photo by Oleg Krutov 

Received 26 Mar,2013

Sent by Svetlana (Moscow, Russia)

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Russian Needlewomen. Photo by Vyacheslav Andreev

Received on 30 Oct, 2016

Sent by Elena, (Novosibirsk, Russia)

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Welcome to the city of masters Belgorod! Photo by Alex Dvorkin

Received 27 Mar, 2019

Sent by Alex (Belgorod, Russia) 

Traditional Greece - little villages

A majority of the people in the villages are old. Most of the young leave after highschool to work or study in cities or overseas.  Many of the old people have lived in America or Australia and come back to their ancestral home to retire. Some of the old people never left and continue to work the fields and orchards their parents and grandparents worked. 

 and the work never ends...

Traditional Greece - Crafts

 Bradder

Near the grandmother, traditional daycare.

fairyland friday

 They Sailed Away. Illustration Sally Anne Lambert. Moongazer Cards.

travel time 4 days

distance travelled 350 km

senr by Kristine in Lappeenranta, Finland

Pig-Molly and Owl.  Illustration Susanne Smajic. 

travel time 10 days

distance travelled 1,028 km

received on 22 Jun, 2015 

sent by Ivan in Minsk

Barbapapa home

Birthday card for my husband :)

Barbapapa is a 1970 children's picture book by the French-American couple Annette Tison and Talus Taylor, who lived in Paris, France. Barbapapa is both the title character and the name of his "species". The book was the first of a series of children's books originally written in French and later translated into over 30 languages.

Our Barbapapa in summer mood.

Ryijy- Rug

 Sent to Mari, Finland

Sent to Lori, U.S.A

Sent to Priyanka, U.S.A

Ryijy is a form of Finnish tapestry or cloth rug.

The name ryijy originated with the Scandinavian word rya, which means "thick cloth". The decorative ryijy rug is an art form unique to Finland. In the late 19th century, ryijy rug weaving developed as a folk art. Some of the most beautiful tapestries were woven then.

 Originally woven for use as coverlets and bedding, they were mainly in natural colors, white, gray, and black. Some tones of yellow, red, green, and blue were introduced with vegetable dyes. Later, aniline dyes added another dimension of color and design.

The use of color and pattern is especially unique to the Finnish ryijy. Dating back to the 18th century, a ryijy was often used as a prayer rug during wedding ceremonies; the tapestry was then hung for display in the couple's home.

Different regions had designs specific to the event and colors specific to the local plants for dyes. Designs were often geometric shapes and florals, or figures of humans, animals, or birds. A very typical motif was the Tree of Life signifying family heritage.

Postcards for the weekend 50: Patterns & prints

Handicrafts

Knitted mittens, Latvia 18th c. till the beginning of the 20th c., National History Museum of Latvia

From Inguna, Latvia

Traditional cross stitch patterns from Netherlands

Sent by Annet, Netherlands

Mitten pattern from Estonia

My collection

Suzanne loves cross stitching and wishes a happy day!

Crafts of Ukraine

Embroidery, wicker baskets, pottery, wood works, wheat weaving, decorative painting,  forging and weaving.

From Lisa in Kiev, Ukraine 

Distance: 1,454 km

Travel time: 8 days

Ukrainian folk art, Petrykivsky Rozpis

From Sasha in Chernivtsi, Ukraine

Distance: 1,607 km

Travel time: 11 days

Petrykivsky painting or “petrykivka” is traditional Ukrainian decorative painting, which originates from Dnipropetrovsk oblast of Ukraine, Petrykivka village. Pertykivsky painting traditionally decorated everyday household items, and the earliest samples of it date back to the 17th century.

UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists.

Belarusian Art And Crafts

Valiarjana Zholtak. Stil Life "Festive" 1985, Oil on canvas

Thank you Ekaterina 

Master of spinning. 

Braslav museum of Traditional Culture

Thank you Ksenia

Dudutki Pottery

"Dudutki" is  an open air museum in Belarus. The museum was founded in 1993, it’s the only private museum in Belarus. Dudutki is a museum of Belarusian rural culture, which represented many national crafts and productions, such as carpentry, pottery, handicraft-making and baking, straw braiding, blacksmith, working wind mill, milk farm producing cheese, the only legal moonshine distillery in Belarus.

Thank you Lyudmila

Vasil Sharangovich, 

Illustration to the poem of Yakub Kolas " New Land"

Yakub KOLAS was the classic writer of Belarusian and world literature, one of the founders of modern Belarusian literature and literary Belarusian language. A poet, playwright, prose writer, publicist, translator, teacher, public figure.

Thank you Nadine!

The Mapuche and Arpillera Chilena

Handmade card showing  Mapuche girl wearing a poncho with  Gemil symbol from Mapuche flag. Gemil is a staggered cross or star, similar to the cross Inca or chacana and represents the art of manufacturing, science and knowledge.

The Mapuche are a group of indigenous inhabitants of south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina, including parts of present-day Patagonia. The collective term refers to a wide-ranging ethnicity composed of various groups who shared a common social, religious and economic structure, as well as a common linguistic heritage as Mapudungun speakers. Their influence once extended from the Aconcagua River to the Chiloé Archipelago and spread later eastward to the Argentine pampa. Today the collective group makes up 80% of the indigenous peoples in Chile, and about 9% of the total Chilean population. They are particularly concentrated in Araucanía. Many have migrated to the Santiago area for economic opportunities.



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 Arpillera chilena

Handmade cards from Nadie, Santiago de Chile

More about arpilleras in my previous post of Chile here. 

C is for Chile

 These cards are from our godchild whose father disapeared during Augusto Pinochet's regime. 

Santiago 13. 3. 1991
Arpillera " La Ronda"

Talleres Solidarios
Arzobispado de Santiago -Vicaria de la Solidaridad



Arpilleras are colorfully enchanting patchwork images telling stories of daily life.  This one is so  bright and cheerful, children playing and doing homeworks and the sun is shining.The history of these beautiful arpilleras is however quite dark.  More information about Arpillera Movement and Vicaria de la Solidaridad you find here



Arpillera Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos "Larga es la Ausencia"  La Cueca Sola - They Dance Alone

Cueca Solo is a protest song composed by English musician Sting and published first on the 1987 album Nothing Like the Sun. The song is a metaphor referring to mourning Chilean women (arpilleristas) who dance the Cueca, the national dance of  Chile, alone with photographs of their disappeared loved ones in their hands. Sting explained his song as a symbolic gesture of protest against the Chilean dictator Augusto Pnochet whose regime killed thousands of people between 1973 and 1990.

Stgo 27/6/90 

Wonderful view of the Osorno volcano

Birthday greetings for our daughter on July 1990

 Santiago de Chile: Vista de la ciudad desde el cerro San Cristobal.

City View from San Cristobal hill.

Stgo/ 3/5/91

There is a time for everything,

God's love lasts forever.

Love is a smile.