The current holiday trade on the "Slavonic Bazaar" is different from previous years at the purchasing power of the population.
Otherwise, everything was as usual. During the "Slavic Bazaar" in Vicebsk among residents and guests "City of Masters" has always been the most attractive place to visit. A variety of shopping and entertainment outlets, concentrated in a small space, is fully consistent with human finicky tastes and needs.
Special demand among connoisseurs of local antiques are things with the known sign of the times: snimesh rust or patina – not like it. Buy kettles, candlesticks, pots, wheels, butter churns, irons, some blacksmith products...
Love buyers and things during the Second World War helmets, medals, attributes clothes, things of military ammunition. Buy them mainly for their own museums, some interior or for registration of their estates, baths.
Many people fit, interested, we would like to buy something, but the majority said that there is no money. Many people bring to sell some heirlooms. Despite the fact that traders in a good joke – the majority of transactions is broken:
– That a plane Papa Carlo personally planed Pinocchio – says the seller of interested buyers. Both are fun, but more laughter is not moving.
– And here is a suitcase with which Khrushchev went to the virgin lands. Not huhry-muhry. By the way, we have to each thing has a certificate – not appeased mischievous trader.
– This year, earnings fell significantly. Previously, buyers from Russia are not particularly looked at the price, and now say, 'One hundred dollars "– and it is now six thousand Russian – is a completely different layout. True, it happens occasionally stumble on our disintegrated casual buyers from western countries: Germany, New Zealand, even, – says one of the traffickers.
In the "City of Masters" abundantly represented pottery. Vicebsk Sergei Gonchar trades pitchers, beer steins, and the other dishes, as well as plaketki – flat pottery small sculptural forms medalist in which various embossed reliefs with the Belarusian national symbols.
Impressed master potter from Ivenets, who along with his partner has developed its own, distinctive technology of pottery. Steins, pitchers, pots, mugs are suitable for everyday use, and compared with factory products of their dishes and thicker and more durable. Its product wizard handles exclusively ecological materials. So inside, he treats them with beeswax, and for the manufacture of tableware is quite attractive appearance does not use technology glaze, as it requires the use of tin, which is not environmentally sound metal.
Many traders so-called "consumer goods", that their quality tend to compete with similar products from China. Thus, Minsk sell inexpensive masters of traditional Belarusian ceramics: children clay toys, whistles and cheap dishes of the original color. But they complain of the poor economic situation in the country, which affects the amount of their income.
Among the merchants stood pavilion representatives online store of Biešankovičy Vladimir and Alexander, who traded goods with a clear national flavor. Sweaters, hats, scarves, T-shirts, bags, Belarusian notebooks, sketchbooks are in the white-red-white colors ... For those who read aloud a poem or sing in their native language, the hosts of the pavilion to make allowances for all the available range. By the way, Biešankovičy young people – one of the few who was pleased with the results of his trade and did not complain about poor economic situation.
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