"Red Thread.

The exhibition runs until July 20. The basis of the exhibition are unique samples of embroidered textiles from the collection of Grodekovsky Museum.

Among the exhibits are:

• shirts,
• aprons,
• ponews (skirts),
• belts and more.

Also part of the exhibition were elements of home decoration: embroidered bedspreads, festive and ceremonial tablecloths, towels or towels.

Laconic embroidery style in the Far East of Russia appeared at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries with the settlers: Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians.

To make their clothes and homes unique, women embroidered women's shirts (shirts), aprons, ponewas (skirts), belts, and occasionally men's shirts. In the home decoration embroidered bedspreads, ritual and festive tablecloths, towels or towels were used. The towel was a measure of prosperity - the more towels in the house the richer the family, and a main component of the interior - it decorated the doors, windows and the red corner with icons. The towel served as a belt during ceremonies at weddings. The length of such towels reached 2.5 meters.

The leading color of the embroidery is red. This is also symbolic - beauty, spring, warmth, health, life. In addition to the ornament, the very color of the thread in the embroidery acts as a talisman. Bright festive feeling creates a combination of white unpainted canvas and red threads.

They used bleached or gray homespun linen or hemp canvas. Shirts were cut from one-piece rectangular cloth, without curved details. This is due to the fact that during the cutting the fabric was torn rather than cut. Such a method allowed the use of fabric without any leftovers.

Ornaments on shirts were embroidered on the edge of the hem, sleeves and collar, and over the folds of the arms, along the seams and side slits, in the places of "entrance". Thus, the ornament was "on guard", guarding the human body. Such embroidered clothes and elements of decoration were inherited.

Embroidered textiles, in one way or another, participated in all stages of human life: associated with birth and death, with the peasant calendar, in wedding, holiday or daily rituals.

Embroidery collection began to form in the museum in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Single samples, over time, were replenished by expeditions collected in the villages founded by the first settlers of the Amur region.

Traditional embroidery, along with village life and ideas about the world, has gone into the past. To turn back and "hear the stories" of masters: weavers and embroiderers of the XIX and early XX centuries, allow objects from the collection of the museum.

Tickets cost 300 rubles (with the ability to visit all the halls of the Main Building)