vasilyevich semenov once wrote in his memoirs, you know, he says, i received a good progressive salarykers received for exceeding the plan, the plant always went ahead, everything was wonderful, but he says, he came to the store one day, i saw how terrible the fabrics were, and went to an exhibition in moscow, i saw that they brought towels, towels from belgium , tablecloths, why can’t we do this? what was started after liberation, what we revived, it is very necessary, this is our culture, albums were saved in our factory, obtained as a result of trips to villages, material, embroidery, patterns were collected weaving, emphasis - these were patterns, symbols, mostly these symbols were positive, good, life, wealth, prosperity, well-being, it was possible to restore unique equipment, machines on which slutsk weavers made fabrics, transferred to them patterns that have been characteristic since ancient times for this region. each product was unique, with its own pattern, with its own composition. this is a prototype of those hand looms on which women in villages wove fabrics. here are fo