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Zhostovo Brooches
Russian lacquer brooches pins with flowers are most Russian jewellry items. Initially these brooches pins were painted in Zhostovo style. Zhostovo is a world-famous Russian folk art center known by its painted metal trays decorated with bright bunches of flowers on the black background. This panting technique is used in painting of brooches pins - bright paints, wide brush strokes, contrast shadows are main features of Zhostovo style painting. The brooches pins are painted on papier-mache base with oil paints and finished with glossy lacquer.