Perhaps one of the most indispensable cutlery is a spoon. In each country, it has always been made from materials available to people, for example, ivory, bronze, shells, silver, and in Rus', wood was used for this, dishes from which were held in high esteem at all times. Despite the fact that the history of wooden spoons began ten centuries ago, they remain in demand even today, since such painted items can not only be given as souvenirs, but also used for their intended purpose. Decorate wooden blanks independently and create a unique version of the spoon, today anyone can.
What is required for painting
Before starting work, it is necessary to properly prepare the base of birch, linden, aspen or alder:
- clean the surface of the spoon;
- apply a primer (depending on the paint);
- cover the base with the desired color;
- translate the drawing and paint over;
- fix with varnish.
A variety of compositions are most often used as coloring materials. Suitable for painting wooden products:
- gouache;
- acrylic;
- watercolor;
- oil.
In addition, you can take aniline paints. In order for the product to look harmonious, it is necessary to achieve the right color combination. The most famous types of painting wooden utensils include Khokhloma, Mezen, Petrikov and Gorodets techniques. For home creativity the best option will purchase wooden blanks wholesale.
Proper care
So that such spoons serve for a long time and do not lose their appearance you need to take good care of them. To do this, it is recommended to treat them with hot water and detergents(soap solution) after each use. The wooden surface easily absorbs strong odors (garlic, fish, onions), so the best option here would be separate spoons for each specific product. In addition, it is necessary to ensure that wooden products do not come into contact with fire. Despite the fact that today it is impossible to do without metal utensils while cooking, do not forget about wooden cutlery, with which food will be much tastier and healthier.
A wooden spoon is the simplest, most colorful and widespread instrument of the Russian people. The city of Semyonov is popularly called the spoon capital of Russia and the famous Khokhloma painting.
There are a lot of tricks for playing on spoons, and if you wish, you can come up with your own. It is important to hold the spoons correctly, that is, we will talk about the performing apparatus.
In the left hand, put a spoon between the thumb and forefinger. The spoon rests in the palm of your hand, scoop down. The thumb holds the spoon on top, but does not press hard. The handle of the spoon looks out.
We insert the second spoon between the middle and ring fingers of the left hand. At the same time, we bend the index, middle and ring fingers a little, and try to place them in the scoop of this spoon. (It may not work right away.)
Now, if you straighten your fingers (except for the big one), the spoons will diverge a little, and from a sharp bend they will converge again. In this case, a characteristic spoon click will be heard. This technique is called COTTON. (He is the most difficult.)
In the right hand we take the third spoon for half the handle and begin to play on the spoons in the left hand, composing our tricks. You will definitely succeed!
Material - wood
size: 190mm*40mm
the price is for a set (2 spoons)
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It is difficult to find a more everyday, and at the same time indispensable cutlery than a spoon.. You can eat with a spoon, you can cut it and use it as a measuring utensil, you can cook in it and just display it as a decoration.
Wooden spoons are a reflection of the originality of our Russian culture and cultural traditions. This cutlery came to us from time immemorial, charming everyone with its originality and color. The first mention of Russian spoons is found in The Tale of Bygone Years, which describes a feast at Prince Vladimir. This feast is famous for the fact that the combatants were indignant when they began to regale them not from silver spoons, but from wooden ones. The prince immediately ordered to forge silver ones, according to the legend. However wooden spoon for a long time existed in Rus', despite the fact that the rapid development of metallurgy led to the displacement of wooden objects from everyday life.
Copyright and original spoons Khokhlomaalways considered a great gift. Spoons painted with Khokhloma painting are very multifunctional - they can be used as cutlery or as musical instrument, they will be a wonderful gift for any holiday, both for a foreigner and for a lover of Russian art. Everyday eating with a wooden spoon, whether it is a painted Khokhloma or an ordinary wooden blank, will acquire a new unique taste and give you an unforgettable experience. This is a wonderful custom that should not be forgotten.
Wooden spoons are not only beautiful, they are environmentally friendly. and practical material. For their manufacture, maple, linden, birch, aspen, etc. wood was used. This wooden cutlery is resistant to boiling water and never overheats. Using wooden ladles, rolling pins, pushers and spoons is not only safe, but also healthy. No wonder in Rus' from time immemorial they ate from wooden dishes with wooden cutlery and were healthy until old age.
spoons from aspen, birch and linden still in Rus' have proven themselves as an excellent folk musical instrument. Due to their durability, they never cracked while playing and still made melodic sounds for many years. Even now, many folk ensembles, school groups and kindergarten groups buy wooden spoons from us inexpensively in large quantities.
An assortment of Khokhloma painted wooden spoons that can be inexpensive buy in our store, very large: there are spoons of various sizes and all kinds of purposes - tea, table, dessert, musical, for pickles, hemp and milling with handles different lengths.
- Hempel semi-Basic spoon is produced in the following way: first, a handle and a scoop are made separately, then all this is dried and joined by a special method of spikes and gluing. The result is a rather rough semi-finished product. After that, the product goes to grinding, where the master on the grinding machine gives it the final shape and smoothness. As a result, we get a high-quality and beautiful spoon made of natural wood, suitable for painting and decoupage, as well as for household use.
- Milling spoons are made from a solid bar birch or aspen through complex machining operations. The result is a rather rough workpiece, which takes its final shape and smoothness only after grinding on a special machine. At the output from the master, we get a smoothly sanded, even and high-quality spoon, suitable for any purpose characteristic of a spoon.
And when you have a question: Where to buy inexpensive and high-quality painted Khokhloma wooden spoons? - it will be easy to get an answer to it by visiting the official website of the manufacturer of wood blanks for decoupage and painting, Khokhloma-magazin.rf
You can purchase blanks and blanks of spoons without painting (the so-called "linen"), as well as with painting Khokhloma, Kudrin and Gzhel from our partners in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Kazan, Berlin, Paris, Hamburg, London , Prague, Tolyatti, Bryansk, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don, Sochi, Perm, Surgut, Yakutsk, Ufa, Vladivostok.
IN as soon as possible we will manufacture, pack and supply any number of spoons from the manufacturer wholesale and retail. Our pickup points are located in all major regional centers of the Moscow and Leningrad regions, as well as in the cities of Samara, Ulyanovsk, St. Petersburg, Krasnodar, Izhevsk, Barnaul, Voronezh, Kaliningrad, Tver and Magnitogorsk.
On the places of production and sales markets for turned wooden utensils in the 16th - early 17th centuries. give a lot of material income-expenditure books, acts and inventories of the property of monasteries. It can be seen from them that the quitrent peasants of the Volokolamsk, Trinity-Sergius, Kirilo-Belozersky monasteries, artisans of the Kaluga and Tver provinces, townsmen of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas were engaged in the development of wooden turning utensils.
By the end of the XVIII century. the production of wooden turning utensils became massive. Russian artisans created truly perfect forms: staves, stavers, brothers, dishes, bowls, goblets, cups, glasses. The craftsmanship, passed on by inheritance, was improved by the creativity of each generation.
1 - brother; 2 - bowl; 3, 4 - dishes; 5, 6 - cups; 7 - glass; 8 - cup; 9 - staker; 10 - stake.
Of the individual dishes, the most common was a stavets - a deep vessel like a bowl with a flat tray and a three-dimensional lid. Some of them had curly handles. The stakes were of different sizes: stakes, stakes and stakers. Stavets and stavchiki were used as dinnerware. Large stakes served as storage for smaller dishes and bread products.
The festive table was decorated with brothers, dishes, plates, goblets, cups, feet. A bratina - a medium-sized spherical vessel with a small neck on top and a rim slightly bent outward - was always made on a pallet. Bratina served to serve drinks on the table. On dishes and plates with wide edges, flat sides and round trays or reliefs, pies, meat, fish, and sweets were served on the table.
The most common type of dish among the peasants was a bowl - a hemispherical vessel with a straight rim, a flat low tray or a small round relief. A salt shaker was an indispensable accessory of every table. Turned salt shakers are small, capacious vessels with a low, stable base, with or without a lid.
Stozharov Vladimir Still life with mountain ash
Khokhloma dishes
Great popularity since the 19th century. Khokhloma dishes began to be used, which were made in large quantities in the Semenovsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod province. It could be found not only in Russia, but also in the countries of the East.
Industrial exhibitions contributed to the popularity of Khokhloma dishes: in 1853 it was first shown at a domestic exhibition, and in 1857 at a foreign one.
Over the centuries, certain types of wooden utensils have been developed and improved in this craft, distinguished by the noble simplicity of the silhouette, the severity of proportions, and the absence of pretentious details that crush the shape. Modern masters, using the best traditions of the past, continue the manufacture of wooden utensils, which are both household items and a magnificent home decoration.
Russian wooden spoons.
An ancient spoon, which apparently had a ritual purpose, was found in the Gorbunovsky peat bog in the Urals. It has an elongated, egg-shaped scoop and a curved handle ending in a bird's head, which gives it the image of a floating bird.
In Novgorod the Great, there were many varieties of wooden spoons. For example, spoons with a small, as if raised on a scallop, flat handle. Novgorod craftsmen decorated them with carvings and paintings. Ornament - braid, made in the technique of contour carving, was applied with belts to the handle and framed the blade. In the Russian North in the XVII century. Vologda onion spoons made in the Vologda region were known, as well as shadra spoons with bones, indigenous ones with bones or spoons inlaid with bone, walrus tusk.
1, 2 - simple spoons. XIII centuries; 3, 4, 5 - travel spoons, X, XI, XVI centuries.
Each nationality of our country has its own forms of spoons, but the most famous are spoons made in the Volga-Vyatka region. There are more than forty varieties of them, only in the Gorky region they made and are making ladles, rubbing spoon, salad, fishing, thin, mezheumok, half bass, Siberian, children's, mustard, jam spoon, etc.
The production of spoons has already been a well-established, branched production in the past. In some villages, blanks were made, the so-called fragments or buckwheat. In a small stump with slightly hewn edges, expanding in the part that should become a scoop, a spoon was hardly guessed. In other villages, lozhkars used a rough adze to gouge out a recess, which was then completely removed with a chisel-hook. With a confident movement of the knife, they cut off the excess from the handle, giving it a slight bend, and the spoon was ready.
Russian wooden ladles
Today, several types of traditional Russian ladles are known: Moscow, Kozmodemyansk, Tver, Yaroslavl-Kostroma, Vologda, Severodvinsk, etc.
Moscow ladles, made of burl with a beautiful pattern of texture, are characterized by bowls of a clear, even exquisite boat-shaped shape with a flat bottom, a pointed spout and a short horizontal handle. Burlap dishes were often made in a silver frame.
Kozmodemyansk ladles were hollowed out of linden. Their shape is boat-shaped and very close to the shape of Moscow ladles, but they are much deeper and larger in volume. Some of them reached the capacity of two or three, and sometimes four buckets. The handle is flat horizontal with a constructive addition of a purely local nature - a slotted loop at the bottom. Kozmodemyansk is also characterized by small scoops, which served to scoop drinks from large bucket ladles. They are predominantly boat-shaped, with a rounded, slightly flattened bottom. Almost vertically set, running from the bottom, a multi-tiered handle in the form of an architectural structure is decorated with a through carving, ending with the image of a horse, less often a bird.
Stozharov Vladimir Still life Linen
Tver ladles are hollowed out from a tree root. Keeping basically the shape of a rook, they are more elongated in width than in length, which makes them appear flattened. The nose of the ladle, as usual for boat-shaped vessels, is raised up and ends with two or three horse heads, for which the Tver ladles were called "grooms". The handle of the bucket is straight faceted, the upper face, as a rule, is decorated with ornamental carvings.
The dippers of the Yaroslavl-Kostroma group have a deep rounded, sometimes flattened boat-shaped bowl, the edges of which are slightly bent inwards. In earlier ladles, the bowl is raised on a low pallet. Their handles are carved in the form of a figured loop, the nose is in the form of a cock's head with a sharp beak and beard.
Vologda scoops are designed for scooping up drinks from large scoops. They are characterized by a boat-shaped shape and a round spherical bottom, they were hung on a large ladle. Hook-shaped handles were decorated with carved ornaments in the form of ducks.
1 - burl boat-shaped Moscow bucket; 2 - a large Kozmodemyansky ladle; 3 - Kozmodemyansk buckets-scoops; 4 - Tver bucket "groom"; 5 - ladle of the Yaroslavl-Kostroma type; 6 - Vologda ladle; 7 - Severodvinsk skopkar; 8 - Tver valley; 9 - Severodvinsk valley.
In the Russian North, skopkari ladles were carved from the root of a tree. Skopkar is a boat-shaped vessel, similar to a ladle, but having two handles, one of which is necessarily in the form of a bird's or horse's head.
Severodvinsk skopkari were also cut from the root. They have a clear boat-shaped shape, handles, processed in the form of a head and tail of a waterfowl, and in all their appearance they resemble a waterfowl.
Stozharov Vladimir still life
Along with ladles and skopkars, valleys or "yands" were decorations of the festive table. Endova - a low bowl with a sock for draining. Large valleys held up to a bucket of liquid. Tver and Severodvinsk variants are known. The best Tver valleys are carved from burl. They are a bowl on an oval or cubic pallet with a spout in the form of a trough and a handle. The endova of the Severodvinsk type has the shape of a round bowl on a low base, with slightly bent edges, with a half-open toe in the form of a groove, sometimes figuratively carved.
Stozharov Vladimir. Still life. Bro and garlic
The initial processing was carried out with an ax, the depth of the vessel was hollowed out with an adze, then leveled with a scraper. The final external processing was carried out with a cutter and a knife.
In our time, the fashion for everything natural and natural is returning. Spoons and other utensils made of this material can be not only souvenirs, but also daily appliances for cooking and eating.
Now this cutlery is made of ceramics, metal, plastic and other modern materials. Our ancestors, who lived in harmony with nature, carved them for themselves from environmentally friendly material - wood. The birth of a wooden spoon in Rus' is rooted centuries ago. The first mention of it can be found in the ancient Russian chronicle "The Tale of Bygone Years", dated 1110 AD. By the way, the very meaning of the Russian word comes from the root "log" - deepening.
The history of the wooden spoon goes back thousands of years. Archaeologists claim to have found this item even in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs.
How did the wooden spoon come about?
Before the baptism of the Russian people by Vladimir, people did not use cutlery. The food was eaten directly with the hands. In order to raise the cultural level of the Orthodox people, the Grand Duke issued an order in which he commanded from now on to bring food only with their help.
From these times began the history of the creation of a wooden spoon. Craftsmen appeared, who were called "spoons", skillfully carving them of different lengths, shapes and volumes. A rough blank was made from a block, which was subsequently polished with special plants and stones. Usually they were made from linden and fruit trees, such as cherry, plum, apple, mountain ash.
Over time, in addition to the usual products with a thick handle, more elegant creations began to appear, with carved patterns and paintings. Not everyone could create a beautiful, light and. Mastery was honed over the years and passed on as a valuable legacy to apprentices or sons.
They began to paint them “under Khokhloma” only centuries later, at the beginning of the 19th century. On a golden or black background, skillful craftsmen painted twigs of mountain ash, fabulous birds and animals. Now this product rather serves as a gift souvenir, especially loved by visiting foreigners. The sizes of such devices are amazing - from small tea ladles to liter giant ladles. IN Lately the customs of our ancestors began to return, more and more often you can see weddings, festivals and holidays held in folk costumes, with traditional Russian festivities. There is even a whole day that is named after this cutlery.
Like a musical instrument
For the first time, buffoons began to use them in this capacity, which accompanied cheerful songs and ditties with rhythmic tapping against each other. This custom has survived to this day. Any ensemble of folk songs must have spoons for playing in their arsenal. Warm, melodic sounds have become the "soul" of any Russian festivities.
It is very useful to teach young children how to play this instrument. This develops not only a sense of rhythm and fine motor skills, but also allows you to remove the excessive activity of little fidgets and instill in them the traditions of our ancestors. It has been noticed that children who learned to play such an instrument had the most even and beautiful handwriting at school.
Signs and divination
In Rus', each family member had her own, so they often carried it with them either in a special bag or in the top of their boots. From here came the expression: "To someone else's table, but with your own spoon."
Everyone knows the sign that has come down to us - a spoon fell from the table - wait for a woman to visit, a knife fell - a man.
In the old days, whole families guessed at them. The most famous was divination on a barrel of water. At night, each member of the family put his spoon into the barrel filled with water. The container was shaken well, and in the morning they looked at how they settled there. If everyone huddled together, then whole year love and understanding will reign in the family. If one or two separated, then their owners are waiting for their departure from their home, or a quarrel with the rest.
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