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Your Home By Emily Ostapchuk Home decorating is a subject of great interest to women and I feel sure th a t many will welcome suggestions and ideas of how we can introduce Ukrainian folk a rt and adopt these motives in our modern home. From earliest tim e when people lived in prim i tive abodes and women strived to make them comfortable and a t tractive. to these modern mech anized tim es where we have un dreamed of conveniences, they still try to make their homes more and more attractive and original. Many influences affect home decorating and influences of the Ukraine can make their place in many homes. It is true many of us have al ready brought some treasures of the Ukraine into our home and through this medium my sugges tions may assist you in using these treasures so th at they may truly adorn your rooms with grace and good taste. Because of the wealth of Uk rainian folklore, influenced un doubtedly by the beauty of the country itself, its history, its steppes and its m ountains, its golden wheat fields, its lakes and its rivers, we find rich motives in all the crafts, particularly hand embroidery, weaving, pot tery and ceramics. All these can be beautifully adopted to our modern home of today. In planning the forthcom ing articles, I hope to bring to the notice of many, a few of the vast num ber of motives used in folk design and to show how these m ight inspire contem porary work. Peasant design in itself is the result of trad itio n ; one genera tion after another has modified or added to things already done. The tempo and finished charac ter of peasant work was the out come of a slower pace of living. Today we have less leisure, we cover greater distances, and lead more varied lives. We may seek inspiration from form s and mo tives used in the past and with the assistance of our creative ability, produce designs which are consistent with our person ality, our nationality and the tim es in which we live. The standard of folk a rt has not always been m aintained at the highest levels. There may be m any reasons for this, and one is the abuse of the exploitations of peasant art, or perhaps the fact th a t the designer becomes too far removed from the source of inspiration. Folk a rt is of the soil, using for its basis common objects, birds, flowers, etc. A high per centage of embroidery design is geometric, perhaps because working in cross-stitch on a lin en ground, geometric patterns are easily followed. There is much inspiration to be found in folk motives. In this age of mass production, it would be well for the artists and de signers who are trying to prove the artistic importance of good design, to bring to it something of the freshness, wealth and ori ginality to be found in peasant art. It is the sincere wish of this Mantelpiece with Ukrainian ceramics
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