Chernyshinskaya toy is a Russian art craft that arose in the village of Chernysheno of the former Novosilsky Uyezd (now the Novosilsky District ) of the Oryol Region , Russia .
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Production
Around the village, clay has long been found: red, white, blue. Its stock was made in early spring and kept in a cold place. In the manufacture of toys, clay was not crushed, but ironed, as if shifting. Modeling began with the establishment of weather, so that the crafts could be "weathered." After making the toys, they were dried for a long time on the tops of furnaces in a pit or in a masonry above the smoke of smoldering rotten deer during the day. Then the night was cooled. The toys were painted with mineral and aniline dyes with a cock feather. They sold them at two fairs - Preplovenskaya and Trinity.
Men did not participate in the modeling of toys; they made dishes. Women rarely sculpted male figures, only with a horse. They never sculpted birds with the exception of the cuckoo , as the cuckoo was revered for a deity that could predict the future. Mostly skates were molded (sometimes three-headed) with and without a rider, lady dolls, feeders and girls with braids. Chernyshenskaya painting is called "cuckoo" because of the stripes resembling the plumage of a cuckoo.
Before the appearance of the toy factory, a significant number of women were engaged in fishing at the beginning of the 20th century. Then manual production began to decline.