Museum "Sources" virtual museum "GUO Loykava Secondary School"
Next Section "The House - The Universe of the Peasant"
It is woven from the ears of rye
Our towel, our Belarusian sample.
Cornflower embroidered with snowdrop
Waves of blue lakes.
Our towel glows like gold
Spring flowers blooms
in spacious houses, in rooms,
At the wedding, pleases guests ...
Our self-woven towel sparkles
Our native Belarusian sample,
And look, look fascinated -
On an amazing, fabulous outfit.
Here you can see with your own eyes what an ordinary village hut looked like in the village of the 19th and the 20th centuries, which our great-grandfathers and great-grandmothers used everyday objects. The main and most respected place in the house is the corner - the red corner. In the corner were hung icons, dressed in exemplary towels-piety, bunches of enlightened ears of rye and grass enlightened in the church.
Towel - a faithful companion of man for many centuries. They put a baby at birth on an embroidered rushnyk, welcomed guests with bread on a rushnyk, young people in the church stood on it, towels were hung as amulets on roadside crosses.
In addition, a towel accompanied the person in everyday activities from morning to late evening. Before looking at the sun, a person “washed off” a dream and caressed his face with a towel. Before you sit at the table, you had to thank God for the gift of life and fate. The gaze was directed to the corner, and there, under the ceiling, was the image of the Savior and ... a white and extremely beautifully decorated towel. He had a distinctive name - a devout and was given the highest status. So, they decorated the icons of the Red Corner.
Our museum presents wedding towels, which were protectors of health, love and well-being. They were tied into the arms of young people, spread out on the doorstep of the house during the wedding, and presented as a gift. Such towels were kept in the family as a symbol of family well-being.
But how was the towel created? And it was not an easy job. First, flax was pulled out and tied in sheaves to dry. Then they ground, scuffed, scratched and began to spin flaxseed with a spindle or spinning wheel.
The exhibits of economic and agricultural use by peasants in the past and tools in everyday life are widely represented. So, in work with hay, family aids became a scythe, a rake and a pitchfork, for grain used sickles, wooden pitchforks, flail. You can also see winders, baskets that were woven from straw and vines. The largest box in our museum is called salamian, it can fit about 300 kg of grain. For most of the grain, the owners made flour with the help of millstones - paired circles that were stone or wooden. Collected material on crafts and crafts.
