Fish skin was an indispensable material for casual, industrial and festive clothing for the people of the Far East. The skin of fish was used for this, mainly large salmon breeds, which were produced year-round. It made light and waterproof robes, pants, sneakers, headbands, aprons, gloves, shoes.
Skin treatment was a complex multi-stage process. Applying ornaments in the technique of coloring, embroidery, mosaics and applications required a special skill. The most archaic way to decorate fish skin products is coloring. Before the appearance of industrial-produced dyes, the masters received blue paint from blue-eyed petal and azoric; red - from pine bark boiled in water; red-purple tones gave cranberry juice. The black paint was obtained from sage, rastered with keto caviar, as well as from turtles berries. Clay was used to obtain ochry and brown tones.
Embroidered and decorated details have been stitched with threads made of keta leather, sazan, soma, rednopera. In the case of the application technique, a special glue fish was used. Often decorating festive clothes was so subtle that it took months to make one robe. Industrial clothing was not decorated much, as a man hunter wore a robe and several pairs of shoes in one season.
In the photos:
Festive women's robe.
Nanay's.
Seaside region. The end of XIX - the beginning of the twentieth century
Author of the text: Svetlana Vladimirovna Romanova, a scientific employee of the Ethnography Department of the Peoples of Siberia and the Far East.
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