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Beresta is the bark of a birch tree. It is a singularly unique natural material. From time immemorial in ancient Russia, Siberia & in North America tribal peoples have used this versatile & pliable material for all sorts of uses. Beresta, the bark of a birch tree is definitely & truly a very unique natural material.
Beresta is very warm to the touch even in a cold room, because is considered to be a "warm" tree because it has a definite & strong positive energy level. It only takes looking at it for a short period of time &/or holding it in your hands for you to feel yourself calm down almost at once, even if you were worried or anxious about something at the time. It is a common thing in Russia & Ukraine now to hear from women working on computers that a headband made from beresta helps get rid of fatigue & often even normalizes blood pressure levels as well. Since prehistoric times, beresta has been used in Russia & Siberia to make different household items, such as boxes or containers to hold salt, flour, grains, beans, nuts, berries or to make beautiful & often highly functional adornments. Specially made tubs & bottles were used to keep liquid foods such as milk, sour cream, cedar oil, all kinds of animal fat, honey, salted fish, caviar, etc. fresh & contained. All of these foods could be kept in these boxes for a longer time than in other types of containers, because beresta has amazing bactericidal & anti-fungal properties & qualities. It is for these reasons that the air in a birch forest is many times cleaner than that in a surgical theater. Historically & traditionally in the Rus smoked fish, fresh fish, honey, milk, oils, seeds & groats were kept in small baskets made of birch bark because these products did not spoil for a long time when kept in beresta containers. Bread, for example, which is kept in beresta products does not get stale for a very long time. Tubs & caskets are used today for a storage of groats, bread, sugar, salt, sweets etc. Beresta was/is used as well as for manufacturing ornaments & adornments also. This unique material is also applied to manufacturing various tools & items to make life more functional, such as fishing boats, tueses(small tubs), & small boxes. The craft art of the old prehistoric & tribal folk is being revived now in Siberia more actively then anywhere else followed closely by Russia & Ukraine. This birch bark craft art is receiving the greatest development in the manufacturing of traditional caskets, boxes, tubs, bins, tueses, bread bins, baskets, sets of costume jewelry, even folders, ladies reticules, hat boxes, fur storage containers lined with cedar strips, packing of jewelry products, covers for books & notebooks. Go To Page: 1 2 |
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