Wooden spoons. Story. Master class "Painting wooden spoons What you need to paint a wooden spoon

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 Russia 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, skilled 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. Recently, 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 Russia, 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, it means that love and mutual understanding will reign in the family for a whole year. If one or two separated, then their owners are waiting for their departure from their home, or a quarrel with the rest.

The Russian Faith website has already published a photo report by the well-known Russian thousandth blogger Anton Afanasiev a "", in which he shows and tells how, where and how the Old Believers of the Semenovsky district lived. Today Anton Afanasiev talks about the second part of the Semenov Museum, or rather about how they made (and still do, though not in such volumes) wooden spoons.

Semenov, or rather Semenovsky district, was rightfully considered and was the Russian leader in this industry, and it was not for nothing that the hero of the book by Melnikov-Pechersky made his capital on spoons. More than 2,000,000 spoons per year were produced here! In general, this craft is perfectly described in his “In the Woods”.

Wooden utensils were produced in many places: in Sergiev Posad and Kirillo-Belozersky monasteries, in Moscow, Yaroslavl, Tver, Kostroma and Kaluga lands. But the Trans-Volga, or, as it was also called, Kerzhenskaya, was especially famous.

There are a lot of types of spoons themselves and it is unlikely that anyone will be able to name this figure exactly, but in the Semenov Museum they tried to collect the maximum possible number of various spoons.

Every spoon in Russia had its own purpose and name.

A spoon for distributing Holy Communion with a cross on the handle was called a liar (this is how the ancient Russians called any spoon). At the end of the handle of the Old Believer spoon for communion, a two-finger was cut out.

A simple Russian wide spoon of medium size was called “mezheumok” (this word, by the way, meant not only a spoon, but in general everything that was something average, neither here nor there, did not belong to either one or another variety). A connoisseur of folk life, S. V. Maksimov, described the popularity of the products of Nizhny Novgorod craftsmen as follows: “They make ... a spoon of “mezheumok”, with which all Orthodox Russia breaks out steep porridge from pots and slurps cabbage soup without burning their lips.”

Burlatskaya spoon "butyrka", the name of which, apparently, comes from the word "butyrit" - to turn over, interfere, mix, was as wide as the mezheumok, but thicker and rougher. She was considered the largest. Barge haulers wore it behind a ribbon of a hat on their forehead instead of a cockade as a kind of insignia, a "sign".

The Basque spoon, or Bosky, was long and blunt-nosed, the semi-Basque was a little rounder (the word "Basque" meant: beautiful, red, prominent, decorated).

Any sharp-nosed spoon was called nosed. Isn’t the saying about her: “A spoon is narrow, it drags three pieces: you need to part it so that it carries six!”

Folding spoons were also made in the Nizhny Novgorod province - they were the most expensive, and also dozen, or tea, mustard, cream, caviar, etc.

The very first automation in this difficult craft is a beam machine. He allowed to grind the stock handle

These are spoons with plot painting by the craftswoman E. I. Pryanichnikova from the village of Khvostikovo. 1930s.

Some of the most expensive were maple spoons, they were rarely painted, as they themselves had a very beautiful texture. The most expensive were spoons made from fruit trees.

All kinds of spoons.

The museum stand presents the production process of a wooden spoon, starting with the simplest clumsy workpiece - a “baklusha”. It took an experienced master 20 minutes. At the same time, sometimes the first stages - splitting the block into buckwheat (chocks), trimming the buckwheat in the rough - were entrusted to children, and the final ones - scraping the finished product with a knife, sanding and polishing - to women. From here, by the way, came the expression "beat the buckets", which originally meant: to do a very simple thing, and later acquired a different meaning - to mess around, to spend time idly. When making spoons, the carver used a special spoon hatchet, rasps, chisels, an adze and a knife.

And these are stages of a semi-automatic process.

Carving training.

And here is Avdey Maslov, one of the few specialists in hand-made spoons (the author spoke about him in the article "").

Well, a few hundred-year-old photographs in the subject. Lozhkari in the Semyonovsky district.

And here is the beam machine.

spoon bazaar

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Master class "Painting a wooden spoon"

Instruction 1. Wooden spoons are most often carved from linden, birch, alder, and aspen. These types of wood are easily painted with gouache. You can also use oil paints. 2. If the surface of the spoon is rough, sand the product with sandpaper before painting. 3. Before choosing a paint, determine the purpose of the product. If your spoon is purely decorative, will not come into contact with moisture, you can safely paint with colored gouache. This paint does not require pre-priming.

5. If you decide to paint the spoon with oil paints, pre-prime it in two or three steps. The composition of the simplest primer: 1 part gelatin or dry wood glue, 5 parts tooth powder. For a glass of water, it is enough to take a teaspoon as a measure. 7. Choose small brushes for painting (No. 2-6), preferably squirrel. Think over the painting pattern in advance (berries, leaves, abstract drawing, etc.). If necessary, with light strokes, apply the contours of the ornament to the surface of the product. 8. Paint the surface of the spoon according to your artistic intent. A mandatory rule of wood painting masters: paint must be applied in one go!

1. Sand products

2. Prepare material

3. Painting the base of the spoon

Ornaments of Khokhloma painting

4.Apply ornament

5. Finished product

Helpful Hints Dry the spoon after painting for at least eight hours. If you plan to varnish the product, dry it at room temperature in a place in the room where there are no drafts and dust. The usual time for the first varnishing is 15-16 hours, the second - 24-25 hours. It is advisable to cover a spoon painted with gouache with several layers of transparent varnish. Lacquer can be applied to the spoon with a brush or swab. There is also a method called the dipping method (the product is dipped into a container with varnish).

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Cognitive lesson "Wooden spoons"

Cognitive lesson "Wooden spoons" presentation

This lesson is aimed at introducing children to the origins of Russian folk culture, the revival of cultural values ​​and the development of their creative abilities....

A creative approach to learning to play the wooden spoons.

This manual describes the methods and techniques developed by me for performing musical works with a play set consisting of 2 and 3 wooden spoons....

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, a wooden spoon existed in Russia for a long time, 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 a 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 Russia 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 Russia 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 various 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 the shortest possible time we will manufacture, pack and deliver 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.

Painting wooden spoons for children 5-7 years old on the theme: Khokhloma

Khokhloma painting of wooden spoons and spatulas with gouache, using cotton swabs.

Polukarova Svetlana Sergeevna, MKDO Anninsky d / s ORV "Rostok", Voronezh region, urban settlement Anna.
Purpose: Masster - the class is designed for children 6-7 years old. Painting on wood allows you to get acquainted with the secrets of artistic crafts and develop fine motor skills of the hands, their sensitivity. This item can be used as an interior decoration, as a gift for March 8, as well as for an exhibition.
Target: to expand the understanding of the types of folk arts and crafts, to continue to acquaint children with Khokhloma painting on various items of utensils.

Tasks:
To see the features of Khokhloma painting, to get acquainted with the new composition of the pattern: depicting a rounded branch with berries; draw a pattern on a yellow background.
Exercise in turning your hands when drawing curls in different directions, consolidate the ability to use cotton swabs to draw small circles.
Learn to draw neatly, beautifully placing the drawing on a wooden form.
Develop creativity and imagination when making decorative spoons
To cultivate a caring attitude and respect for the products of people's labor.
Materials and tools: wooden blanks - a spoon and a spatula; an album, a simple pencil, an eraser, gouache paints (red, yellow, green, black, white), a jar of water; protein brushes No. 2, 4, 6; cotton buds.

wooden spoons is a reflection of the originality of our Russian culture and its cultural traditions. Wooden spoons came to us from time immemorial, charming everyone with their originality and color. What a wonderful souvenir gift for your friends and family!

Wooden crafts not only beautiful - it is an environmentally friendly material. Using wooden products is not only safe, but also beneficial for health. No wonder in Russia from time immemorial they ate from wooden dishes with wooden cutlery and were healthy until old age.
1. Draw on paper a sketch of a spoon and spatula.

2. According to the drawn sketch, we cut out objects from wood.

3. Next, we continue to work with paper sketches. We decorate the painted products with yellow gouache.

4. We think over the drawing of the painting on paper in advance. We draw with a simple pencil, then decorate with gouache.

5. Next, when the sketch is ready, we do the same work with wooden products. Coated in yellow on both sides.

6. We paint over the ends with red gouache.

7. We apply an ornament - berries, with red gouache. On the shoulder blade, draw 3 circles with a brush No. 2. On a spoon - bunches of currants with cotton swabs, using the poke method.

8. On a spoon with cotton buds we make flowers in blue

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nine . On the blade of the leaves - this is the application of brush No. 6. On a spoon, draw currant leaves with brush No. 2.

10. We draw curls with black paint, brush number 2.

11. We decorate the antennae on the shoulder blade. We put pokes with a cotton swab with black paint.

12. We decorate the leaves and currants on a spoon with white paint.

13. Draw a red border on the handles.

14. The product is ready. Can be varnished if desired.

15. Helpful Hints:
- dry the spoon after painting for at least eight hours.
- if you plan to varnish the product, dry it at room temperature in a place where there are no drafts and dust, the usual time for the first varnishing is 15-16 hours, the second - 24-25 hours.