Bone carving
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KHOLMOGORS'KA BONE CARVING
Kholmogors'ka bone carving as a craft has been around for almost 400 years. This is the art of doing the master of the
city Kholmogory that is under the Archangel, and its surrounding villages. Their works were of high skill, perfect technique. The best master thread brought to work in the
Armory, which carried out work for the royal court.Master thread used for walrus and mammoth ivory, spool, creating from them and luxury items, and everyday things. Customers have Kholmogorsky craftsmen was not only the
royal court, but also monasteries, temples.After the start of construction of the new Russian capital, St.
Petersburg, the demand for expensive, delicate things increased dramatically. The main part of the range of products
holmogoskih masters were all kinds of caskets: large and small, shaped like boxes with a lid and a simple four-sided,
with a flat.Produce different kinds of boxes, boxes, trays, knives for
cutting paper, glasses, vases, smoking devices and a variety of women's jewelry. Masters used different methods of
threading: relief, volume, cross-cutting, engraving used with tincture.
Kholmogorsky masters have vivid imaginative thinking and a sensitive national motives, their clever creations are elegant
beautiful part of Russian decorative and applied arts.
