Contest "Slavic handicrafts"

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

The product itself can be completely different: woodcarving, leather goods, embroidery, clothing, homemade toys, paintings, etc. Limitations are only in time (works are accepted until the end of the month), in the number of products - it must be one, and in quantity photos - at least 5 pieces (maximum is not limited). In addition to the manufacturing process, one of the photographs should contain an image of the product with the author in order to avoid other people's work under the guise of their own. Works can be sent by mail (if you do not want to publish your photos publicly), but it is better to post in the discussion "Slavic handicrafts" of our group in VKontakte (here -

As a reward, the developer of the KON-KOLO kit provided one copy of the Yarilo kit (see video).

As additional prizes - many interesting books on Slavic topics.

Description of the constructor given by the developer:

Constructor-KOLO - Key of Sacred Geometry. Sacred Geometry is the path of cognition of the Universe and Man. Pythagoras referred to Sacred Geometry as "the most Intimate Science of God." Sacred Geometry is not only the proportions and relationships of the forms that are the matrices of the Kon and the structures of the Universe, but also the dynamic processes of Life, reflecting the interaction of energies and various planes of consciousness. At different times, in different cultures, the Initial KOH of Creation manifested itself under different names: Alatyr-Stone, Flower of Life, Stone of Life, Grail, Treasure of the World, Chintamani, Philosopher's Stone, Stone of Light … Developer contacts:

And here are the first works sent to the competition:

Recently, Teacher's Day has just passed, and I decided to tell you about the work that I gave my teacher for this glorious holiday! The fact is that we are with him doing research work on the Celtswho they were and where they actually came to Europe, and in parallel we study various kinds of folk wisdom)

Photo 1. For work, you need threads, needles, scissors, pencils, and a canvas (I drew the diagram myself, so you won't find it on the internet:)). The photo also shows my hand with a scar.

Photo 2. We start embroidery with four yarg signs along the edges (two frontiers and two trotters), spiritual and spiritual swastikas below. Also embroidered is the phrase with which it all began: "OTHER ARE YOU?"

Photo 3. Well, half of the border has already been embroidered, so the work is coming to an end.

Photo 4. One more "side" is being embroidered.

Photo 5. Sew the edges on a typewriter so as not to bulge.

Photo 6. And here I am before the festive day of presenting, albeit belated, but a gift!

Photo 7. And this is my happy teacher and me.

This is how a typical Arkhangelsk schoolboy lives:)

Boys and girls, as well as their parents, I want to tell you a little story.

When I was a little girl, it was of course a very long time ago, in the 70s of the last century, and there were no computers, tape recorders and many convenient technical means for entertainment, but there were books and there was already a TV, but it was then with a black white image, maybe that's why the world around was more colorful.

Oh, childhood, you can talk about this time endlessly, reveling in every moment, since every moment in it is happy.

In every adult, a child continues to live his whole life, and apparently that is why we delightfully plunge into our childhood.

Many things come to mind with a smile, for example this.

For me, fairy tales began before going to bed. At a quarter to nine, the TV show "Good Night" was watched, and then the parents read fairy tales. Fairy tales were small, different, both Russian and peoples of the world. And then the lamps were extinguished and … the most terrible thing, or better to say the most interesting, began. Of course, the room was filled with all sorts of miracles - yuds, princes and princesses, geese-swans, they were in the folds of curtains, in clothes left on a chair, in carpet patterns, on shelves among books, and of course under the bed. But the dream always came and the good heroes certainly won, since every fairy tale always has a good ending, for that is why it is a fairy tale.

So, fantasizing, I fell asleep, fantasized and woke up, rejoicing that the clothes on the chair remained clothes, and not the hunchbacked Baba Yaga. Do you understand what I'm talking about? Of course, you know, you, too, are sometimes afraid to stick your heel out from under the blanket?

Then there was a day and the games continued. Of course, there were dolls, and dolls, bears with hares. But still all the surrounding objects were toys. We also rattled our mother's pots and built houses, trains from them, like today's children. They knew how to make a pistol after eating the crumb of a bread slice. Make princesses from mallow flowers and roses, and little men from bundles of grass or burdock. Any vegetable made everything. And the fairy tale about Cipollino, (by the way, there were excellent records on the records), we, the children, listened to it as about the world of fruits and vegetables, and nothing more, of course, without any politics. It was never boring. How boring it could be, because everything around is just waiting to be played with, I thought so.

For example, these cucumbers, now they are gobies and cows, and will go to the watering place from the hot sun.

The handkerchief easily turned into dancing Petrushka. Notebooks for planes and boats, etc. etc.

All this was with us, it was with our children, and I think, their children will also.

It would seem such simple things, insignificant, one might say useless, but this is how traditions are preserved. This is exactly what I wanted to lead you to with my introduction.

So I suggest playing with dolls, for small and large. The doll is Russian, traditional, and now they made it in the fall. The doll is called Zernovushka or Krupenichka.

Its brief history is as follows. At the end of the harvest, they did not forget to make amulets from the new harvest for the satiety and well-being of the family. They were the most important in the family. Filled with the finest grain.

I suggest trying to do it yourself. Fill the bag with grain. Once the most expensive was buckwheat - it was usually filled with wheat, and rye, and peas.

Tie at the waist. And dress up. Each will succeed in his own way, and his height and thickness. That's the interest. The bag can be a pound of cereal or less, from the palm of your hand, for example, everyone will choose their own.

They dress Krupenichek in warm clothes, in hats and scarves. So that the grain does not freeze in the winter, it waited regularly for spring.

And they also say that if winter suddenly says hunger, then take the grains from Krupenichka and add them to the bag for food, that bag will not run out and you will spend the winter. And in the spring, they added krupenichkovy to the sowing grain, so that the new grain would give fat seedlings.

They take care of the good of Krupenichki so that the family ate their fill, as they worked until the seventh sweat in the season. And when you are full, then it is fun, then both the song and the fairy tale are a joy!

Save the grain!

Fly for a while!

Until the new spring!

Until the new summer!

Until the new bread!

This is a protective doll, she has secrets, whoever wants to, will find out.

But it can also become playful. Only in a bag, and it can be just a child's sock, do not put grain, but for example wool, or something else that is soft, and dress it up with the children, draw ruddy cheeks, weave ribbons into braids. Play is also science. Where there is fantasy, there is creativity and creation.

I would be glad if this science is useful to anyone. Kindness and goodness to all!

From SW. E. V.