Russian folk art. Khokhloma./ Русское народное искусство. Хохлома.

Khokhloma is a unique ancient Russian folk craft born in the XVII century near Nizhny Novgorod. This is a decorative painting of wooden utensils and furniture, made in red, green and gold tones on a black background mainly. The main colors used in Khokhloma style: gold, black and red. Other colors are also used to enliven the pattern - a bit of yellow, orange, green, brown and rarely, blue and bright tones of green. Traditional elements of Khokhloma are red juicy berries of mountain ash and wild strawberry, flowers and branches. Birds, fish and animals are also frequently found. An original technique of painting wood in a goldish color without applying real gold is typical of Khokhloma craft. The video used fragments of the video from the channel "Lana Nova": https://youtu.be/3pv8NQ2xJII . В видео использованы фрагменты видео с канала "Lana Nova": https://youtu.be/3pv8NQ2xJII .