Unique museum exhibits returned to Abakan after restoration

Natural furs, Chinese silk and gold embroidery. In Abakan, after restoration, the old Khakass coats and the bride’s cap returned. For a year and a half, masters of the Grabar All-Russian Art Center worked with them. How specialists managed to return the clothes to their former brightness, Marina Kanadakova will tell. This is what the museum unpacking looks like: in a parcel from Moscow – Khakass clothes, which were sent for restoration to the Igor Grabar Center. These are nineteenth-century coats and hats. They were donated to the museum of a resident of the village of Arshanovo. The origin of things is unknown, but the fact that they have survived to this day, great luck, experts say. Here is a matchmaker's coat - with a finish of merlush and otter fur. This is how it looked before: the fabric was worn so much that the lining was visible. Restorers restored and cleaned everything. “Manual work. Here are the fabrics that you will not find anywhere else. This is a silk fabric, this is a fabric of Chinese origin. Moreover, in our modern life, no one is engaged in this, everything is lost, says Lyubov Mezhekov, a researcher at the Khakass National Museum of Local Lore. The second fur coat is festive, such a sewer to wear to the wedding. From velvet and brocade, with finishing from the paws of sable otters and merlush. There's rich embroidery on the back. Here it was necessary to replenish the lost fur and gold threads on the fabric, as well as clean the product from dust and traces of moths. “When we saw these fur coats, when they came from the center of Grabar, the first thing we noticed was that the fur coats became brighter,” said Lyubov Mezhekov, researcher at the Khakass National Museum of Local History. Both coats were worn by wealthy women: for example, Chinese silk for matchmakers required seven meters. An expensive thing was the cap of the bride from the otter: it is decorated with corals and buttons of mother-of-pearl. This headdress is the only one of its kind in the museum funds. “Time will still take its course. Of course, it's all going to fade. Because it's organic. But of course, we will observe the temperature, humidity and light, said Lyubov Mezhekov, researcher at the Khakass National Museum of Local History. Antique clothing requires careful treatment, and before placing it in the exhibition, it is necessary to create conditions for safe storage.

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