Technology of the lacquered miniature is long and labor-intensive. At the first, half-finished products have made from arboreal cardboard, glue every layer (may be before 10) by meal glue. Then the half finished products have been dry in the natural way.

After they have been bath with boiled butter and dry in the course of the nine-ten days in
chambers of stoves. Dry half finished product have been sawed. At the pieces, glue bottom by casein glue, pressed connecting details, covers, fastened joints. Half finished product machine polished to make the defined forms to handicrafts and smooth surface. Then the box have been treated with drying oil dry, caulked to level unevenness, have been polished by water-resistant sand-paper. Then the box two-three times cover black enamel, then black lacquer, cinnabar and transparent lacquer inside. Every low of covering dry in drying chambers of stoves at the 70-80 C, every drying is over 7 hours. Handicrafts are drying 5-7 times.

After this laborious task handicrafts came to the painters who draw small strokes on the surface by the thin squirrel brushes with tips as thin as point of the needle. Masters of Fedoskino paint miniatures by oil paints. Masters of handicrafts of Palekh, Holuy and Mstera make their handicrafts by egg tempera.

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