For the first time in Yamal. Items of traditional sewing will be presented at the exhibition in Salekhard

The interregional exhibition of traditional sewing of northern peoples will take place in Salekhard on the 6^th and 7^th of April. The event is orientated on development and popularization of creative art of craftspeople basing in their art-works on authentic ethnic traditions and also advancement of products of ethnic direction and professional exchange of experience.

The program of the exhibition includes the fair of folk trades, the fashion show – demonstration “Traditional and authorial costumes”, the creative laboratory of the exhibition participants and the speech of the invited expert, the presentation of ethnographic collections from funds of the Museum and Exhibition complex, the photo-session in traditional ethnic clothes. Creative collectives are invited to participation: workshops, centers, houses of crafts and fashion theatres, family collectives and also individual craftspeople, designers, students and pedagogues of creative specializations of secondary and higher educational institutions.  

According to the director of the regional department of culture Yevgeniy Koltunov, the exposition will be interesting and picturesque. It will present amazingly beautiful and complicated art-works. Residents of Yamal will learn how and with help of what different kinds of clothes was sewed many centuries ago. Thus, about year is taken to sew clothes of fish skin. It is very difficult and scrupulous work.

As he notes, skilled craftspeople from other northern territories will participate in the large exhibition together with craftspeople of Yamal.