Russian Mosaic

[Jhon Dolton]

All items in our store rusmosaic.com are handmade! They're made with great love and will delight you for years into the future! We have ready-made products, but if you need something special, you can make a custom order. Made in Russia, shipped worldwide.

 

Touch the sweetness of the Russian soul, embodied in the works of folk art. All products are made from natural and green materials.

 

Russian dresses, Ukrainian shirts, kokoshnik, kosovorotka, valenki, ushanka, soviet uniform, gzhel, khokhloma  and much a whole lot more! And not to forget famous Russian wool shawl.

 

RUSSIAN SHAWLS - SYMBOL OF RUSSIA

 

At first of the 19th century, it became fashionable to wear woolen shawls in Russia. The first shawls were stated in the small town Pavlovsky Posad in the Moscow Oblast in the midst of the 19th century ushanka. The basic tone of the woolen shawls is usually black whilst the composition of the motives is a combination of large and small floral ornaments. Mostly roses are the motives on the scarfs. The shawls were often worn with traditional Russian folk costumes.

 

The predominant color on the shawls happens to be red, as this color means beautiful in Russian culture. Furthermore, Oriental and Turkish ornaments on the scarves had also been popular. The scarves continue to be enjoying a good popularity in Russia and its surrounding countries.

 

How did kokoshnik arrive at russia?

 

In ancient times, the tiaras were low, with a modest finish, and wore them, weaving to the hairstyle. Byzantium VI – VII centuries A.D. these were made from gold and decorated with precious stones, the garments themselves were massive and consisted of several parts. Byzantine tiaras came to Russia, presumably in the X century, married women wore them as well as other dresses. The word "kokoshnik" was initially mentioned in a document of the 17th century and dates back to the old Russian word "kokosh" - "chicken". 
The hat got its Russian name for its resemblance to chicken scallop. After the decree of Peter I, the nobles dressed up in European dress, kokoshnik remained in the wardrobe of merchants. Listed here is a story. It was interesting?

 

RUSSIAN HATS FOR EVERYONE

 

Russians hats are extremely popular all over the world.

 

The key symbol of the Russian hat is, obviously, "ushanka" (a bomber hat). It was a hot functional headgear in the Soviet Army which soon became a social icon of the Soviet Union. For animal lovers industry offers faux fur or fleece. The pecularity of the ushanka hat is so it covers competely your mind, forehead and ears, no cold, no wind let in. The ushanka secret is in the ear flaps, that may be tied up on the top, or underneath the chin to protect the ears.

 

The amazing story of the Russian dress

 

Russia was home to a lot more than 150 million people - of which just about half were ethnic Russians.

 

The range of colors for traditional costume displays love for beauty and ethnic diversity. These costumes aren't only beautiful, additionally, there are convenient in wearing because these were designed for work as well. Festive clothes and everyday clothes, married woman's and young girl's clothes differed only for details, decoration, color gamut. Red fabric cloth was regarded as the nattiest one, and, in addition, the Russian word "beautiful" arises from the word "krasny", the Russian for "red" ;.

 

Homemade canvas and wool clothes decorated with embroidery or woven pattern have already been used frequently for traditional peasant costumes. Embroidery came in numerous ornaments (rhombuses, crosses, herring-bones, stylized patterns of men and women and animals) performed in naturally painted threads. Red, blue, green, white, yellow - along with gamut was rich and various.

 

Regardless of the social and territorial differences Russian traditional clothes had something in accordance, they had to be put as a cape, from the head. Soft silhouette without any cuts emphasized Russian lady's light steps. Dress and sleeves were getting wider to the lap; the fabric was decorated with symmetric pattern, or with other golden or silvery-like fabrics, furs.