Russian scarves and shawls from Pavlovsky Posad

Russian scarves and shawls from Pavlovsky Posad . Pavlovoposad Shawls - Flowers of Russia on your shoulders...
...The artist's role in creating kerchiefs is great: on their talent, ability to grasp fashionable trends, and also on their understanding the taste and requirements of consumers did depend the beauty of kerchiefs and demand for them on the market. Therefore, despite the fact that it was possible to buy kerchiefs designs from "elsewhere", which was often the case; at any relatively large textile mill they preferred to have artists' studios.
In the end of 1870s, they developed designs for shawls of three types. At that time, they continued to produce kerchiefs with Oriental or 'Turkish" ornament. Due to a wide spread of such kerchiefs, the second type of Pavlovsky Posad shawls that finally settled itself in 1880s can conditionally be determined as "a democratic" one. Such kerchiefs as well as the majority of shawls with the "Turkish" designs are characteristic of almost complete filling of the fabric with ornament, when the only remaining free space is a small star central part and a narrow band along the fringe. Their designs consisted of flowery bunches that filled geometrical figures of various form or medallions, formed by ornamented bands, scalloped bands or garlands of small flowers. Roses dominated among flowers and were treated with effect of a third dimension, though somewhat schematically...

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