Kustar

Woven and embroidered kustar products, displayed at the Second All-Russian Kustar Exhibition, St Petersburg 1903. Woven and embroidered kustar products, displayed at the Second All-Russian Kustar Exhibition, St Petersburg 1903.

A kustar is a Russian home or cottage worker, a peasant engaged in cottage industry. The kustar produced a wide range of products, including embroidery, and the popularity of kustar products can be regarded in the light of the arts and crafts revival of the nineteenth century.

By the late nineteenth century, kustar products were sold worldwide. Kustar products were shown at the First All-Russian Kustar Exhibition, in the Tauride Palace in St Petersburg, in 1902, and at the second such exhibition that was also organised in St Petersburg, and which took place in 1913. After the Russian Revolution, kustar crafts were again briefly promoted, and exhibited at the First All-Russian Exhibition of Architecture and Kustar Industry, held in Moscow in 1923.

Source: SALMOND, Wendy R. (1996). Arts and Crafts in Imperial Russia: Reviving the Kustar Art Industries, 1970–1917. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Digital source of illustration (retrieved 28 January 2017).

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