📷 Golden straw and ancient traditions

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Have a nice day! When the Kuban is quarantined and everything is closed, of course I can't go to the fair, but I have a lot of photos that I haven't shown you yet. I hope some of them will cheer you up. Moreover, today I want to tell you about a popular folk craft-weaving from straw.

Since ancient times, our ancestors used straw for a variety of purposes. With the development of agriculture, straw immediately found a variety of applications in the life of farmers. This material did not require farmers to pay any additional costs for harvesting or purchasing. After the harvest and threshing of grain, straw was plentiful.

The roofs were covered with thatch. Straw was used for fodder and bedding for livestock, and in lean years it was mixed even in bread. She shoed and dressed the peasants, warmed their homes, and served as a bed. From it, people learned to make hats, rugs, baskets, and many other household utensils. And today Kuban craftswomen make original Souvenirs and other memorabilia from straw, see for yourself what is not here.

Weaving from straw in the Kuban is quite popular needlework. And products from it are very interesting, and most importantly durable. In addition, the straw looks very nice on bags and baskets.

I also like various Souvenirs made of straw. They can also decorate your home, some look very original.

The masters told us that the shape of these wreaths and weaving techniques have come down to us from antiquity. But for the first time they were made in the East. However, there they had other names: "Arab cage", "Egyptian symbol of fertility". The very first image of such wreaths was found during the excavations of the ancient Kingdom of Urartu.

Different peoples have different names for straw pendants.

  • The Lithuanians call them "sodas", which means garden, the Latvians - "puzur", and the Finns and Estonians - "himmeli" (crown).

  • In Germany, the names "handecrona", "flying crown" and such a concept as "anxiety"are common.

  • Czechs call them "fly Paradise" or "fly dance".

  • Among the Udmurts, such straw ornaments are called "censers".

In the old days, straw was not only of material value to the peasant. All agricultural peoples endowed the stalks of grain plants with a special spiritual essence. They believed that they contained the spirit of the deity of the bread, the cornfield, and the power of its fertility.

Our great-grandmothers believed that ears of corn and straw, compressed in accordance with special rituals, can have an impact on the prosperous course of peasant life.

Often wheat ears were placed in the houses, and all sorts of toys and crafts were made from straw.

Straw dolls from many Slavic peoples were given to young people on their wedding day. Thus, the Belarusians in the Grodno province used to make two straw figures for the wedding ceremony – a male and a female.

They were placed at the gate, blocking the path of the groom who came to the bride's house. The very straw from which they were made represented the fertility of the land. Those straw dolls were supposed to facilitate the birth of children in a new family.

I especially liked the straw dolls and the almost transparent angels with wings.

Have you tried making something out of straw?

I wish you all health, kindness and prosperity. Be active, but try not to show up on the streets. Let this terrible virus die out and our life will return to its usual rut...


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Thanks for sharing this article and these lovely photos.

Yeah, the entire world is locked inside. What a strange and surreal experience.

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Thank you for stopping by, I'm glad you liked it.
Health to you and be careful!

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