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Flower brooches -these brooches are most popular amongst women. Initially these brooches were painted in the Zhostovo style. Zhostovo is a world-famous Russian folk art center popular for its painted trays decorated with bright bunches of flowers on the black background. This panting techniques is use in painting of brooches - bright paints, wide brush strokes, contrast shadows are main features of Zhostovo style painting. The brooches are painted on papier-mache base with oil paints and finished with glossy lacquer.

Fedoskino - these brooches of countryside scenes are painted by highly skilled artists in style of well known Fedoskino style. Artists from Fedoskino use a realistic style of painting and oil paints for their drawings instead of temperas. The brooch base is made of a mother-of-pearl piece and framed with metal. Half transparent painting and shinning shell piece make the brooch festive and attractive.

Santa - these brooches are definitely most popular just before Christmas, they are perfect gifts for kids. Different thems with Santa are painted on the papier-mashe base with bright tempera paints. The brooches are finished with glossy lacquer

Hair slides - with flower and other paintings these items are suitable for any age or hair colouring. The hair-slides (hair-pins) were painted on papier-mache or wood base in Zhostovo style painting with tempera paints. Each hair-slide has a metal clip that fixes hairs.

Animals -this is a new idea which has proved to be getting more and more popular among collectors and pet lovers

Pins - five tiny hand painted lacquer dolls hang from a safety pin brooch - flowers, families, Disney characters, animals are main subjects of painting. Each tiny doll was painted with bright tempera paints, then was finished with glossy lacquer.

Colourful hand painted Russian brooches are loved and collected worldwide. There is huge variety of types of brooches made as each region, and even each crafts center is known by its own unique style. However, there are not any craft centres which solely specialise in brooches as they are made alongside lacquer boxes, trays, and tableware. So the style of brooch is derived not only from the influence of Palekh, Mstera, Kholuy, Zhostovo, Khohloma etc but also from all these other products.