Filet-Guipure
Lace was a prevalent stitchcraft in Samara Region before 1917.
It has nunnery genesis. At one time Dutch lacemakers invited
by Peter the First have put a beginning of needlework classes
at a nunnery for the girls from surrounding villages. At the
Soviet time due to phenomenally unrestrained activity of Nadezghda
Tazova (1906-1997) Filet-Guipure Lace art was kept and developed
in Samara Oblast. It has got characteristics of the Samara School.
Nadezghda
Tazova has received first embroidery skills from her mother,
which was trained in due time at a nunnery in Buzuluk District
of Samara
Region. For more than thirty years of work in stitchcraft groups
at various establishments in the city of Kuibyshev (it is Samara
now) Nadezghda Tazova has transferred her skill to many girls.
She is the author of the several books on Filet-Guipure Lace.
The National Master title was given Nadezghda Tazova (certificate
#233) by the decision of National Art Commission of the Russian
Artist Union on June 26, 1981. N.Tazova is a repeated participant
of exhibitions in Kuibyshev and Moscow. Since 1980 she cooperated
with Russian Art Fund; her works were purchased by Exhibition
Fund of Russian Artist Union. Among the students of N.Tazova:
Raisa Khozlyukh, Nina Belyavskhaya, Lydia Kharpheyeva, Olga
Yakunina. ( The data was prepared with use of the information
about N.Tazova made in 1982 by E.Aphonina, art expert of Russian
Art Fund on work with the national masters, and kindly given
by R.Khozlyukh) [February 5, 2002]
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