Belarusan Nizanka

Take a journey and learn about Belarusan spirituality while immersing yourself in Belarusan folk wisdom. According to Belarusan beliefs, when you feel a need to commune with God there are three ways to ensure your prayers are heard. First, you can go to church and pray. You can also light a candle and pray. Lastly, you can embroider while meditating on your prayer, for doing embroidery is communicating with God. Belarusans have preserved ancient Aryan symbolic scripts by transforming them into ornamental stitchery. For generations they have passed on the traditions, symbols and wisdom of their grandmothers. They still believe the adage, “While your hands are stitching, your heart communes with God. Stitched symbols are a way to communicate with the spiritual realm.” This is a very detailed, guiding from the first stitch to the last finishing tutorial in Belarusan Nizanka stitching technique with instructions, large charts and photos. As a result, you will get a finished miniature bookmark with one of the nice, simple hemming, fringing and tasseling methods featured. And by this, the point of the whole method will get comprehensible and you can stitch more complicated and intricate designs.