Material: Paper, soft pastel, pencil
Size: 48 cm x 36 cm
Year: 2018
Design: The work is framed
Status: for sale

This work is based on an example of a Gryazovets spinning wheel (Vologda Province).
Describing the decorative patterns of spinning spinners, many researchers made vague
assumptions about their pagan content, but only V. M. Vasilenko dared to compare them directly with
Russian mythology and try to decipher the ancient symbolism
of these patterns. He first compared the shape of the Gryaizovets spinning wheel with the mysterious
image of the goddess Makosha: «These spinning wheels are strikingly similar to a schematized female
figure and recall the figures of goddesses on ancient towels of the northern provinces».