Lidia Krivytska.
and Serhiy Latanskiy
HUSARKY RAINBOW OF TAPESTRIES
Nataliya Diakova and Serhiy Latanskiy tell, how they've preserved and develop traditions of patterned decorative tapestry making of a weaver from the village of Husarky that is in Zaporizhizhia region. The latter is considered to be the center of such kind of tapestry making in the region. The evidence of that is an extensive collection of the Museum of Local Lore, old-timers' stories and masters' exhibitions. In the XIXth century 33 Byelorussian villagers families, migrants from Smolensk region, settled on the place of the contemporary village. They've preserved a unique language as well as elements of Byelorussian culture. In the early XXth century Husarky village weaving was supported by Oleksandrivsk local administration, local amateur masters were taught new technologies in Poltava weaving school. The authors analyze contemporary masters' artworks and prove, that after exhibitions as well as professional and folk art festival that had taken place in the capital, Husarky villages weaving was experiencing the second wave of acknowledgement. A school should be founded for young generation to study tapestry making and for this art to live forever. Artworks purchasing should be arranged as well as it'll incite a creative process.