Among unique, well-known in the world products, presenting pride and glory of Russia, a particular place occupy from the ancient town of Pavlovsky Posad. Every year "Pavlovo Posad Shawl Manufactory" issues 200 kinds of shawls, scarves of natural fibres: wool, cotton, silk.
Manufactory was established in 1812 year by reach peasant Semen Labzin. Labzin established the ancient craft of the Russian print at the industrial basis. The first shawls were fabricated by hand print.
Declaration of high art and cultural value of our products is the reference of "Pavlovo Posad Shawl manufactory" to the enterprises of folk art crafts of Russia. The work at every new product is start from a design. The group of gifted artists are working at the design of drawing. The artists are passing ancient traditions from generation to generation and creating new composition solutions. All prepared designs are considered and affirmed by Art Council, to which are invited merited artists of the factory, representatives of the Ministry of Culture.
The base for woolen shawls is a high quality fine fleece wool, of which our weavers produce different kinds of fabric. A particular airiness and ecological purity of fabric allows not only to save a hair style, but to protect a hair against "the hotbed effect".
As soon a design is affirmed, to the work on it are attached colorists, trying to get as exact as possible reproduction of author's design executed in gouache, by means of textile dyestuffs.
The main difficulty of this work is that the true color will be seen only after a steam treatment (this operation is necessary for a solid fixation of dye-staffs on the wool fiber) and a washing. Thus a colorist is forced to make a lot of test dying before a final recipe will be obtained. Every design is printed in several versions (colors). Printing is realized on manual print tables and on many-color prining machines. The most responsible operations are executed by hand. There are many different operations have to be made for giving birth to unique in it's qualities Pavlovsky Posad. Its production technology combines a careful attitude to the traditions and the using of the most advanced achievements of scientific and technical ideas. The factory is the first in the world who had introduced a plasma chemical treatment fabrics before the printing instead of using ecologically harmful chlorination, having left for many years behind other enterprises, only now beginning to realize all advantages of this method.
An article collection of the factory is various. Besides articles with the traditional design there are a lot of modern ones.
