From ancient times in Russia, an enviable bride was considered a girl who could manage both household chores and knew how to needlework. The high cost of materials, and often the inaccessibility of necessary things, forced Russian beauties to do incredible things with their own hands.
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For museum visitors and for connoisseurs of ancient traditions, it is no secret that in the houses of residents of both cities and ordinary villages, you could see utensils made of clay, wood and bast. To help the housewives were beautiful chests, shrouded in iron and painted with incredible patterns.
On long winter evenings, maidens, married matrons spun wool, linen and woven a cloth from finished yarn. So that the tufts of wool (lobes) did not roll all over the room, the beauties folded them in bast baskets, painted with intricate patterns. It was this bast basket that was called the ureter.
Features of use
After reading the paragraph above, many will decide that they already know what the ureter was used for. But it is not so. Painted bast boxes were not only organizers for storing wool, they were used by craftswomen to store all weaving and sewing supplies.
Since the spindle and the spinning wheel were one of the indicators of the bride’s wealth, they were decorated with beautiful carvings, intricate ornaments. The spinning wheel was an indicator of family wealth. They were given to wives, brides, sisters and mothers. There was a custom when the groom broke the spinning wheel brought from the house of the bride's parents and handed her a new one.
What is urine for the inhabitants of Ancient Russia? This is a kind of gift wrap, capable of not only showing a guy’s attitude to a girl, but also expressing his dissatisfaction. So, in one of the collections of the museum complex "Horse Yard" there is a ureter with a commemorative inscription from an offended failed husband.
Lady's secrets
The ureters were made from birch bast. He was steamed, and then bent at the right angle. What is a ureter, decorated with patterns, merchants and craftsmen involved in painting such goods knew firsthand.
The cost of one such box was 2-3 kopecks in its original form. In order to earn 1 ruble, the master had to paint up to 80-100 baskets per day.
A beautiful box without a lid was the main attribute of any female corner. It stored not only expensive devices for processing yarn, but also various trifles. A comb for hair, ribbons found their refuge in this box.
So what is a ureter? This is not just a piece of pliable birch bark for beautiful crafts, but also part of history, the cultural heritage of the Russian people.