Pavlovoposad Shawls : Flowers of Russia on your shoulders

Handkerchiefs and shawls from the ancient town of Pavlovsky Posad occupy a special place among the world-famous unique products making up Russia’s pride and glory. Every year, Pavlovo Posad Shawl Manufactory manufactures about 800 kinds of shawls, wraps, scarves, mufflers, stoles, tablecloths from natural fibers: wool, cotton, silk, linen... Unique Pavlovsky Posad school of foulard print has developed on the handcrafted manufactory for more than two hundred years, preserving traditions and honing the skills of artists. The work on each new product begins from the pattern (krok), and its future destiny depends on the correctness of the composition solution and color gamut chosen... A characteristic feature of our craft is the entire collective’s desire to realize the original intent of the artist. Once the pattern is approved, colorists start working on it. Their task is to select recipes for printing inks, achieving the most accurate reproduction of the author’s pattern made with gouache, using textile dyes. The main difficulty of this work is that the true color will be visible only after the fabric processing with steam (this operation is necessary for the dye’s strong fixation on a wool fiber) and washing. Thus, the colorist has to make a lot of trial prints before the final recipe is achieved. Every pattern is printed in several color variants (color schemes). Depending on the pattern’s difficulty, various ways for applying the pattern on a fabric are used. Printing is...