Even in modern literature, one can sometimes find the outdated and incomprehensible word "patterned." What is it, what are we talking about? In fact, the design element is both an architectural style, and a common name for beautiful and valuable objects, and even a universal name for some types of folk art. Let's try to figure everything out in order.
Pattern is valuable and beautiful things.
The word "pattern" comes from the Old Slavonic language. Our ancestors used a similar noun in everyday speech to denote jewelry and beauty. What is curious, in Russia, pattern-making is not only forged, jewelry and precious stones, but also a variety of embroideries and woven paths for the floor, created by simple craftswomen to decorate peasant huts. The housing of ordinary people was quite simple and nondescript, and each housewife tried to decorate her house with her own hands.
Architectural style
Russian pattern
design is an
architectural style that traces its history to the 17th century. The characteristic features of the direction are the silhouette with a complex shape, an interesting composition, an abundance of bright colors and rich decor. In this style, churches and cathedrals were built, as well as civil buildings and private homes of very rich people.
Sometimes the term “Moscow patternor” is also used, but it is used to denote the same style. Historians and architects today are debating about how this direction was formed. However, it is impossible not to recognize it because of the abundance of tents, kokoshniks, carved cornices and platbands on window and doorways, carved columns and columns. However, most of the elements are not functional, but exclusively decorative. The rows of kokoshniks on the facades of churches symbolize the fiery heavenly forces. Under the domes, the drums are deaf, exclusively emphasizing the size of the tents. Additional domes and awnings were built over the terraces and entrances also exclusively for beauty.
The word "pattern" in modern Russian
Now we know that the pattern is beautiful objects, decor, some valuable attractive things and the name of the architectural style. In what situations is it appropriate to use this word in everyday speech? In its direct meaning, it is rather obsolete. It is appropriate to use in texts stylized as Old Russian or in thematic historical reports. At the same time, in our everyday vocabulary, the word "pattern" remains as the name of the architectural style, and accordingly, it is inappropriate to consider it completely irrelevant and outdated.