Representing the pride and glory of Russia is from the ancient town of Pavlovsky Posad.

Every year "Pavlovo Posad Shawl Manufactorying" issues 200 kinds of shawls, scarves of natural fibres: wool, cotton, silk.

Manufactorying was established in 1812 year by the peasant Semen Labzin. Labzin established the ancient craft of the Russian printing on an industrial basis. The first shawls were fabricated by hand printing.

Expression of high art and cultural value of our products is the reference of "Pavlovo Posad Shawl manufactory" to the enterprises of folk art crafts of Russia.

The work at every new product starts from a design. A group of gifted artists are working on the design of drawing. The artists are passing ancient traditions from generation to generation and creating new compositions. All prepared designs are considered and affirmed by Art Council, to which are invited merited artists of the factory, representatives of the minestry of Culture.

The base for woolen shawls is a high quality fine fleece wool, of which our weavers produce different kinds of fabric. A particular airness and ecological purity of fabric allows not only to save the hair style, but to protect the hair against "the hotbed effect".

As soon a design is affirmed, to the work on it are attached colourists, trying to get as exact as possible reproduction of author's design executed in gouache, by means of textile dyestaffs.

The main difficulty of this work is that the true colour will be seen only after a steam treatment (this operation is necessary for a solid fixation of dye-stuffs on the wool fibre) and a washing. Thus a colourist is forced to make a lot of test dyings before a final recipe will be obtained.

Every design is printed in several versions (colours). Printing is carried out on manual print tables and on many-colour prining machines. The most responsible operations are executed by hand.

There are many different operations which printing have to be made for creating a unique in qualitie Pavlovsky Posad. Its production technique combines a careful attitude to the traditions and using the most advanced achievements of scientific and technical ideas. The factory is the first in the world which had introduced a plasma chemical treatment on fabrics before the printing instead of using ecologically harmful chlorination. Many other enterprises are only now beginning to realize the advatages of this method. An article collection of the factory is various. Besides articles with the traditional design there are a lot of modern ones.

Shawls

    Orenburg downy shawls
    Pavlovo-Posad shawls
        125x125
        150x150, 148x148, 146x146
        89x89 fringe
        89x89 silk
        89x89 talus
        Scarfes