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My mother told me a ditty the girls sang during weaving:

"Nothing worries me more about  the tow of flax,
That my rival will make more yarn."


  Sometimes you weave, weave on a certain day. But, oh, you get so tired. And here a beggar comes, to ask for morsels.
Anushka, my girlfriend, sends me a note with the pauper: "Anfisa, I am crying bitter tears; the loom seems to be a goat."
To hand-weave, a canvas wall per day is really not a joke. Willy-nilly, you start to sing or to invent ditties ...
But there was another opportunity to eliminate the monotony of work. You could vary not only the foundation but also the ducks: by colour, by material.
The centuries-old tradition of weaving had to diversify and change how to weave. Here are the main ones, woven canvas for bedding, bags, furniture, etc. It was no longer a simple canvas, which had the same right and left sides. For Weaving in Ryadno need not two Chapko (Nitchenko), and three or four. Three Chapko warp threads are made consistently three throats, canvas turns out not only stronger, but also beautiful, with a barely noticeable scar slanted. The fabric takes on an entirely different and more complex structure. Yarn of cow, sheep or goat wool was used for duck fabric, from which they made a winter top, for the most festive clothes. / In the snatch/weaving at six and six nitchenok chicaneries.
The pattern of the finished fabrics were two alternating bands, one with a scythe with a thread, the other with a straight line. / Uzornitsa - / fabric, formed from vosmiparnoy basis. Eight consistently replace zevov eight chicanery and the hands and feet of two ... Order not to get lost in footboards, click where you want, you must have experience, a sense of rhythm and proportionality.
Wall uzornitsy expert at weaving sometimes the whole winter. The pattern was composed of identical cells, as would be filled with oblique lines, forming rhombs. The boards of this fabric, trimmed with bright stitch and bleached lace, were a rarity in high esteem for the future bride's relatives. / Stitch - / most difficult artistic fabric. Method of weaving uses selective exclusion of the main threads of the process of weaving. With thin planochki certain warp threads are raised in certain places, creating a very rich geometric pattern. Ducks can be a contrast in color with the base. But particularly high artistic expressiveness strove mistress when they took the thread to duck slightly lighter or slightly darker foundation. The cream colour pattern gave penned surprising originality. Figure tissue completely dependent on the imagination, skill and time available weaver. Stitch sewn to the ends of wedding dresses, towels, to the hem of women's shirts. / Sasha / and / straps / woven on the same principle as the canvas, but as if in miniature. The basis was made dvuhchapochnaya and narrow (its width is dependent on the conceived sash or belt). Patterns of these zones are legion, they are clearly expressed and the rhythm of color and graphics. Perhaps, if such products are used for weaving and plaiting elements. The material serves as wool and linen dyed yarn. / Prodolnitsa, or tissue for longitudinal sarafans, woven on special Krosno, which are twice as wide as normal. Width became the basis of length sundress. Sundresses such as fabric - one of many examples of mutual influence, mutual and inseparable relationship to national cultures. Thus, many young and not quite young Estonian women nowadays wear clothes fully coincides with the Russian prodolnitsey. National consciousness was completely alien to jealousy or pride in such borrowings. Wool yarn dyed in different colors and not wide stripes woven on a broad and solid basis of linen. In order to prevail specifying woolen yarn, the threads were passed on to one tooth ^ *, not two, as usual. Mistress so she could alternate the colors and match the width of color bands that the fabric began to play, turning into a man-made rainbow. However, such a transformation took place more quietly, even more important: drab weaving a holiday. / Mats, / or / track, is characterized by degeneration and disappearance of high-weaving culture. The main technology of weaving is preserved, but instead of the weft of wool are used colorful fabric strips and strings. Artistic individuality masters barely emerges from a similar fabric, although the product is often striking decorative showiness. In richness and rhythm of color combinations in rugs is difficult to find a graphic clarity and harmony: the reason for this, apparently, simplicity and vulgarity of textile material.