Pavlovo Posad shawls
Woollen shawls and scarves with printed patterns: roses, peonies and paisley on a black, red, blue or light ground. They have been made in Pavlovsky Posad in the Moscow Region since the early 1860s.
Production grew out of local traditions of cottage weaving. The peasant enterprise from which the shawl manufactory later developed was founded in 1795 by I. D. Labzin, a peasant of the village of Pavlovo.
In the early 1860s his great-grandson Ya. I. Labzin, together with V. I. Gryaznov, turned the factory over to printed woollen shawls. The manufactory flourished in the 1870s and 1880s, and its products won medals at all-Russian exhibitions.
For a long time the pattern was printed by hand with carved wooden blocks known as “manery”: each block carried one colour, and a complex design needed many successive impressions.
Today the shawls are made by the Pavlovo Posad Shawl Manufactory. The patterns remain traditional: bouquets of flowers, garlands and oriental paisley.
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Pavlovo Posad shawls 
Pavlovo Posad shawls 
Pavlovo Posad shawls