Description: Researcher team travels to the village Glubokoye, where they meet Anna Konstantinovna Popova (Nyura), one of Cherenovo singers, and her family. They are offered lunch at Nyura's kitchen. Then they say their goodbyes and…
Description: Researcher Polina Proutskova and her partner Sven Macholl who assists the researcher team are filmed when taking the regular bus service from Glubokoye to Shangaly. You can't really hear what they are talking about…
Description: The researcher team takes a regular bus service from Glubokoye to Shangaly. Camera woman Elena Bobretsova films everything she sees. You can see other passengers in the bus, local landscapes, villages where the bus passes by, a…
Description: These towels come from all over Ustiansky rayon. Old women gave them to the workshop for preservation. Taking these old examples as models they make new products at the workshop. In the Northern regions towels were…
Description: Elena Vladimirovna Druzhinina demonstrates old belts collected at the workshop and new belts made by the workshop members. She explains different techniques of making belts and shows different patterns.
Description: These towels were made by the members of the workshop. They were all made after old models. One of the towels Elena Vladimirovna Druzhinina shows just recently received the first prize in the competition '100 best…
Description: Elena Vladimirovna Druzhnina started to make dolls a year ago.Members of the workshop often go on field trips where old women show them dolls that they used to play with as children. Elena shows dolls that can only …
Description: Members of the workshop also make rugs, modeled after ancient examples as well as more modernized. Elena Vladimirovna Druzhinina explains the symbolics of ancient patterns.
Description: Elena Vladimirovna Druzhinina shows looms that members of the workshop gathered all around Ustiansky rayon. She demonstrates the difference between preparing a loom for weaving a rug or a towel.
Description: Members of the weaving workshop prepared a display explaining to kids what weaving is and what they do in the workshop and to wake their interest. School groups visit their workshop quite often.