Confecționarea costumelor naționale și a accesoriilor pentru Festivalul Mondial de Tineret (Moscova, 1957) în cadrul atelierului „Promhudojnik” din Chișinău
The manufacture of national costumes and accessories for the World Youth Festival (Moscow, 1957) in the Promhudojnik workshop in Chisinau

Summary/Abstract: Craftsmanship artels with the main purpose of manufacturing industrial products, fabrics, carpets, clothing and accessories are of particular interest in restoring the history of craftsmanship on the current territory of the Republic of Moldova. In this article, we aim to highlight the work of the artels, in which fabrics were made, various pieces of the popular port, metal accessories, souvenirs, gold jewelry, and to analyze clothes items from the artistic and compositional points of view, thus following the metamorphoses of the national costume in the first decades after the war. The most important artels are: the “Promhudojnik” and “Progress” from Chisinau, „Kovrovshchik” in the village of Tabara, Straseni district, “Trud” from Cahul, “Krasnaia zvezda” from Bender, “Zavety Lenina” from Râbniţa, “Novaia jizn” from Balti, “Put k pobede” from Soroca. Taking as a basis the data from the Archives of the Social-Political Organizations of the Republic of Moldova on the Preparatory Measures for the World Youth Festival (Moscow, 1957), correlated with the samples kept in custody of the National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History, we present an overview of the activity of these artels and the manufactured clothes items, of state policy in the field of making and promoting the Moldovan national costume during cultural events, the raw materials and the working techniques.

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