Only to the national genius belong such traits as optimism, the ability to express itself under many life's conditions that would seem entirely unsuitable. There is no doubt that a talented Kholmogor's bone carver, finding himself by fate somewhere in the wilderness, did not expect to get from someone walrus tusks but would find something else to work with. For example, with clay… Earth has always kept something in reserve for the artist.
Just a potter wizard did not feel right to stand idly by if there is no clay in the ground, but he is surrounded by birch or spruce thickets. Birch bark is probably the oldest and most widespread North raw material used by all possible masters. They produced shoes, toys, festive masks, dishes, and utensils from it.
Birch bark has a bilateral structure, and colour properties are easily extracted and are easy to work with. It is decorative by itself. Lightness, strength and accessibility made it a favourite, indeed the people's material. Carved birch-bark baskets, salt shakers, edging for baskets made in the North all over the place, but this artistic craft, based on the carving in the bark, created by people from Velikiy Ustyug. Trade still exists in our time.
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