Bast shoes

There you go again, sending my imagination off on a tangent, I am a nanomHUK or lapotnik, and do not know
any better, but this gentleman is just too happy, someone must have just given him a free bundle of linden
bark. Thank you for sharing this extended family of yours with us. Introductions are in order, I do not even
know his name.

-- As ever, Gus-the 75 yr young apprentice carpenter

His name is

-- Lidiya,Russia.

Nice work – lady of few words :-) You are talented.

-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/

....I was just thinking what name to give, so forgot to put ”...”
Maybe Mattew, in Russian Matvey – a very kind man :)

-- Lidiya,Russia.

А может, Матвеич?

-- почти столяр

А может и Матвеич.

-- Lidiya,Russia.

I sure like yoiur carvings ;-) Nice work.

-- "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence

I like your carvings as much as anybody’s that I’ve seen. You can tell that your style is very unique and that it is your own. Your imagination and creativity shows in every piece that you do and it’s just wonderful work and an inspiration to me.

-- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau