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  Belarusian traditional embroidered towels - rushniks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Old ethno-genetic information is practically erased in towels of Central Belarus by posterior historical and cultural influences, coming of civilization, which pace of development in the 19th-20th centuries was fastest in Belarus.
The most ancient features are preserved in towels made in techniques of picking embroidery and branaie double-weft weaving, which come from the Biarezina local area that includes Cherven’ and Biarezina districts of Minsk voblasc’, the Asipovichy district of the Mahilyow voblasc’.
The following types of towels are presented in the album: Kapyl towels, Asipovichy towels, Cherven towels, Staryia Darohi
www.belarusguide.com /culture1/visual_arts/Belarusian_rushnik.htm   (7545 words)

  
 History of Grodno Gubernia
Together with the City Hall, the fire and water towers, they created a unique charateristique [sic] silhouette of every town.
The streets of old-time towns were normally straight (Polatsk, Ragachou, Asipovichy, etc.).
However, certain town (Mazyr, Navagrudak, Slonim) were located on hilly terrain or along rivers, so the streets in them were not symmetrically straight.
www.jewishgen.org /belarus/grodno/hist.htm   (3575 words)

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