Russian Folk Ornament. the First Issue. Sewing, Fabric, Lace

As is known, Stas was a supporter of the theory of borrowing Russian folk ornaments, embroidery, as well as oral tradition, including the epics of other nations, that is. E. Denied the identity of Russian folk art. "Locally, our patterns could happen especially in our country, because there are many other peoples since time immemorial, long before the emergence of Russia on the historical stage." - Wrote Stasov. Although Stasov's position on the issue of borrowing Russian epics of other nations subjected to serious criticism by contemporary scholars, installing it on "borrowed" pattern has not yet received a serious assessment among modern anthropologists and art historians. But the book is interesting, of course, is not the position of Stasov, and the fact that this is the first album of Russian folk art of embroidery, published in Russian. Typically, ethnographers, referring to the book, like to quote the idea Stasov: "Are there any pictures of our value embroideries? Do not just whether it is a product of fantasy and arbitrary line in the game? Never. The ornaments of all new peoples coming from antiquity, and the peoples of the ancient world ornament never concluded a single idle line: every detail has its importance here is the word, phrase, expression of known concepts presented. The series is connected ornamentistiki speech, consistent melody, which has its root cause and is not assigned to one only eyes, but also for the mind and senses. "