"Century-old collection. Traditions of ancient embroidery" Automatic translate

July 5 at 15-00 in the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts (Lenin St. 103, 2nd floor) will open the exhibition "Century-old collection. Traditions of ancient embroidery. " The exhibition was organized jointly with the Obninsk Municipal Budgetary Institution "City Club of Veterans" and is dedicated to the Foundation Day of the Kaluga Region.

This exposition allows the viewer to plunge into the world of Russian traditions and touch the lively history of the Kaluga Territory. Costumes, towels, tablecloths, embroidery patterns - everything is here that was created by the hands of skilled craftswomen, and secrets were passed down from generation to generation.

Thematically the exhibition is divided into two blocks: authentic objects from the funds of the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts and reconstruction costumes based on old samples created by the amateur folk team of the Art Embroidery club at the MBU City Veterans Club (Obninsk).

The history of the creation of museum exhibits dates back to the early 1920s, when in Tarus M.F. Yakunchikova, a relative of V.D. Polenova, and her friend N.Ya. Davydov was founded by the embroiderers’ artel to preserve the craft of traditional folk embroidery using the color cross technique. In 1924, M.N. Gumilevskaya, 1930s became the main artist of the enterprise.

For the first time, the embroiderer’s artels produced paths, tablecloths, dresses, shirts, various embroideries on silk, and women’s caftans. Samples of patterns containing traditional motifs of Kaluga embroidery for the artel brought Tarusian

Artel participated in domestic and international exhibitions, where its products received recognition and high appreciation of quality. In 1930, products began to be exported to France, America, England, Belgium and other countries.

The museum’s hall presents a variety of 1920s sewn-ups created in the Tarusa embroiderers’ artel, and later works by M.N. Gumilevskaya, I.A. Demchenko and L.N. Flea from the collection of the Pushkin Museum.

The amateur folk club of the Art Embroidery club at the MBU City Club of Veterans (Obninsk) was organized in 1999 on a voluntary basis in the form of a needlework circle that brought together lovers of embroidery of retirement age. And in this initiative group, leisure has become creativity. Over the years, a huge number of surprisingly beautiful, unique embroidered things-worthy exhibits of any exhibitions have been created. Some of them left for Russia or went abroad - to England, Germany, France, Armenia, America and other countries, and the circle grew into an art embroidery club. Since 2005, the team has been engaged in the reconstruction of traditional Kaluga costumes, and since 2009 it has also revived the unique old Kaluga embroidery - color cross-dressing.

With great love and craftsmanship, collections of folk costumes and traditional towels were created, including those with embroidered color cross-stitch and white stitching. The presented products are restored with detailed accuracy from ancient samples and materials from the state museums of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kaluga, Tarusa, Zhukov and private collections. The works of the club’s masters have already managed to visit many city, regional, regional, national and international exhibitions and receive well-deserved recognition and awards.