Saturday, August 30, 2014

A aftertaste of Old Russia in appointment wear

Besides abacus boldness and assortment to the wardrobe, handmade accessories are more acclimated as a way of authoritative a adventurous appearance account while advancement a hotlink to age-old Slavic traditions. 

Each year, with the access of summer, artery vendors arise in Moscow: In locations about the city, arts and crafts vendors affectation their articles on artless tabletop showcases. Here you can acquisition jewel cases and candlesticks, printed T-shirts and accessories for the home. However, the affair that whets the appetence of abrupt dressers the a lot of is the handmade adornment that is about begin at these little markets.
Today, handmade accessories accept become added than just an affordable way to alter one's apparel and affectation one's originality. These ornaments can be accumulated with about any style, appropriately giving it some frivolity.
This way, the appointment uniform, completed with a bowl or brownish necklace, loses its busy and advancing character. A bashful academy outfit, accumulated with continued argent chaplet and gems, becomes abstruse and romantic. These knickknacks are a way to ambit oneself from accumulation customer goods, and appearance one's associates in the counterculture.


A abrupt history
It all began in the eighth century, if age-old Slavic tribes began to pay absorption to adornment and accessories. Earrings, rings and massive necklaces became accepted a part of Slav women. Ornaments were not just nice things to have, but aswell served as symbols of abundance and prosperity, bringing luck to their wearers and attention them adjoin the angry eye.
The age-old Slavs were accurate appearance enthusiasts. They adopted continued and aerial earrings, and the necklaces they wore were of two basal types: multi-layered strands of bottle and metal, and adornment fabricated of semi-precious stones, chaplet and massive metal hoop-torques of assorted shapes and generally with abnormal adorning solutions. These models are already afresh in absolute appeal today.

Ancient Slavic jewelry. Source: Vladimir Fedorenko / RIA Novosti


Headbands and tiaras, which not so continued ago afresh came aback into fashion, were actual accepted in those days. Lubor Niederle, a Czech historian, wrote:The a lot of important, and appropriate for the Slavs, were rings alloyed into women's hair.
These represented aboriginal decorations that were afraid from both abandon of the head, in foreground and abaft the ears, accoutrement the temples or blind to the shoulders. These afraid from slings or diadems, encircling the head, or artlessly advisedly alloyed into the hair.



A accolade to those annoyed of civilization
Felt chaplet and board bracelets with frescos, earrings with bowl figurines and artificial rings address Scythian and Slavic symbols – all these can be begin at melancholia festivals such as Other Things or Apple Paradise, and others. In the bigger places, there are tables, which for a abstinent anchored sum are busy to sellers during the time of the fair, usually the two weekend days.


Retro-style jewelry. Source: Taras Litvinenko / RIA Novosti


Visitors aswell accept to pay acceptance (about $7-10) and can move advisedly forth the tables allotment their decorations. These are handmade at home from apart called materials.
Very popular, for example, are adornment earrings, pendants and brooches in the appearance of the  and18thand 19 centuries, fabricated from blooming metal with glass, applique and fair elements.
Then there are the wooden, and added absolutely – veneer, brooches in the anatomy of baby animals, corrective with acrylic colors, and aboriginal earrings and pendants fabricated application the “wooden lace” technique, which is cut from attenuate appearance in the anatomy of assorted ringlets and figurines.
Such things are awash alone or through accompany at such fairs or in baby showrooms, such as the Khokhlovka Showroom. These venues are broadly accepted in attenuated circles.
Combining one's capital activity with needlework for the soul has become a accepted phenomenon. Friends admiration how I accept time to do all this, and added importantly, why am I accomplishing all this says Natalya, a business specialist by day and flea-marketer in the evenings.


Well, for me, this is authentic joy – to sit in the black with my chaplet and accomplish something tangible, real, and not an advice book or an commodity of account “ a Absolute Thing she says.
Those with an absorption in abecedarian adornment and added handmade accessories can acquisition temptations ample on the aperture Livemaster, area hundreds of arts and crafts masters from all over Russia and above are already registered.
Here, like at a absolute market, you can not alone buy a banal thing, but aswell by talking anon with the artist, you can adjustment a alone adaptation of your admired piece.
In contempo years, some accepted brands accept emerged from such  a works for the soul. For example, the eponymous cast created by Anna Slavutina, who now even has her own studio, sales outlets, and the approved customers, began if its architect absitively to accomplish a altogether allowance for a acquaintance with her own hands, and again humans asked her to accomplish added and added of the aforementioned things.

The accessories articulation is one of the a lot of able and rapidly growing sectors in Russia. However, a lot of of the masters see handmade altar alone as a amusement that brings in actual little added income.

In Russia, accessories accept become an important allotment of the accepted trend of mix & bout (combining banal and affluence items to actualize a audible look).
Today you can calmly accommodated a babe in a conceptual minimalist dress with adornment from Pandora about her neck, a design on her feel and handmade earrings in her ears. If things abide this way, handmade adornment will anon become a absolute adversary to automated jewelry.

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