Traditional Russian Costume

Lectures and master-classes for residents of San Francisco-Bay Area
Feel free to ask us to organize any lecture/master-class for a group of your friends who are interested in Russian tradition. Please contact us via e-mail, and we will discuss date, time, and place appropriate for your group. If you don't have a group, you may sign in for any topic. We will make a lecture on a certain topic when a group of at least 4 people will be assembled. We will inform you about date, time, and place of a lecture. The cost of a lecture/master-class is $25 per person. A class lasts up to 3 hours.

4. Traditional Russian Embroidery of the 11th - 19th centuries, a lecture Make a Russian talisman or a traditional decoration for your clothes or your house using ancient techniques, master-class Lecture (up to 1.5 hours) Origin of embroidery (Bibikova's theory). Symbolic language of ancient embroidery: the meaning of main patterns (10 of them). History and evolution of patterns. Color symbolism of embroidery. Degradation of ancient embroidery in 1880s-1920s: reasons and ways. Master-class (up to 2 hours) Introducing of different techniques and stitches of Russian embroidery: nabor (weaving stitch), rospis ("painting"-stitch), glad (counted-satin stitch), tambour (free-stitch). Choose a pattern for your project Start the project. For attending this master-class you need >>>>>>