Russia is wooden ... From time immemorial, houses were built, huts and whole farmsteads made of wood. This was done for the life of the people, so that there was a Russian man's head to incline, and winter in the warmth. And to live by yourself, and to attach the cattle. And the stone was in abundance, and clay was enough, but everything was built of wood, as wood - the material is warm, lively, infinitely grateful, it's cool in the hut in the summer, warm in winter. So entire Russian cities appeared on the expanses of the Russians, villages and villages. And where people live, churches are built there, big and small, cathedrals with chapels, parishes and presence.
Life requires beauty. The house is peasant wooden, although it is well built, but it looks simple and unpretentious. Steel carpenters decorating invent, compose ornaments, boards with carved patterns, "towels", podzory and pricheliny. There was a house carving. From the instrument, the architect had only an ax, and a chisel with a chisel. However, hunting is more than bondage, since you want to cut something beautiful, then the hatchet can be sharpened so that there will be a ringing, and the carving from under it will turn out to be thin, but intricate. There were real master-finishers and with them house woodcarving, applied art, which gave the carvers a wide field for creativity. Competition has begun, who cuts the tree better, cleaner and faster.
It was all in ancient times. Today, wood carvers, specialists in this kind of art, like house carving, have a wonderful set of tools, and there are no impossible tasks for them. Technologies of fine art processing of wood are diverse, from simple flat-surface carving to a through ornamental pattern with a complicated interlacing. The method of artistic carving "Tatyanka" is indispensable for the embodiment in the tree of natural subjects with leaves, grass, flowers. The baroque carving is used in the framing of church iconostasis. And the facades of residential wooden houses are decorated with slotted planks-podzoryami.
Every owner of his own home is concerned about the attractiveness of the facade of his home. I want the house to be decorated on the principle of exclusivity, with unique carved patterns. The greatest degree of uniqueness is provided by the so-called gorodetsky house carving. In this technique, a deaf embossed "Tatyanka" is combined with its inherent natural subjects, which are reflected in the urban carving in the form of floral ornaments. The rich vegetative filling of the Gorodets carving is the most popular when decorating the facades of wooden houses.
Some masters also willingly use in their work ornaments of Art Nouveau style from the stone architecture order. Their elegance and practicality can not be better suited to the tasks of finishing wooden houses.
At present, wood carvings are being fashioned in the form of bas-relief sculptures carved from hardwood. The image is half recessed into the surface of the wall or panel of the house. The effect of visual volume perception is amazing. This technique makes it possible to reproduce bas-reliefs on any topic, Chinese and Japanese, African and Latin American, the choice of subjects is not limited. Sculptural bas-reliefs can be combined with other carvings, for example, art lacework. Also, for the exterior design of the house is suitable overhead home threads without a through-cut, the elements of which are glued with a waterproof glue.