Pyrography

Pyrography or "fire painting" has been used to decorate wooden objects by charring since the time of the shepherds. Using fire-hot knives and skewers, they applied straight and curved lines, circles, twigs and plants to wooden items. This was how pipes, mares, spoons, ghegs, etc. were decorated. A new way of decorating wood was pyrography with a petrol apparatus, which was later (1921) replaced by an electric one. At first the painting was black and white, and later the images were coloured with different coloured paints. The motifs used in the pyrography of flasks, plates, salt containers and small jugs , were mostly borrowed from the decoration of folk fabrics, scales and garments.