International Project “WEAVING”
Explanatory note
Weaving was a kind of needlework and a way of earning money in Russia for many centuries and it was impossible to survive without it.
Manual weaving had a great success in Bashkortostan. People weaved curtains (sharshau),
Clothes and articles of housekeeping applications were weaved on a manual weaving loom. There appeared a new kind of
In Bashkiria traditions of weaving with geometrical and vegetable desigh, colouring and making decorative patterns were passed from father to son.
Due to realization of UN Convention of Invalids’ Rights and within UNESCO Project “Inclusive education” in Salavat College of Education and Professional Technologies there appeared a great necessity of creating training workshops of manual weaving for disabled people.
The starting point was the idea that each patient has a little of a healthy person and he is a potential worker; a usual way of “going to bed” leads to apathy and further demolition of an individual.
Work in manual weaving can be really divided into stages in any way so it is possible to adapt it to a patient’s specific requirements. That’s why work in manual weaving is always used for therapeutic purposes.
II.
* Revival of the Bashkir people’s handicraft – weaving.
* Study the German experience of weaving.
* Creating a workshop of manual weaving for disabled people.
* Working out a curriculum and methodical materials of the training course “Weaving” for disabled people.
* Organising a training course of manual weaving manufacturing.
* General conclusion of scientific approaches in the Russian and German systems of rendering help to disabled people.
* Dissemination of the
III. Addressed audience:
institutions of education and social defence, disabled people and their parents.
IV. Participants of project:
UNESCO Committee in the republic of Bashkortostan, the State
autonomous educational institution of secondary professional education
Salavat college of education and professional technologies (SAEI SPE
Salavat college of education and professional technologies), the Society
“Bridge of Friendship Boden – Vyurtemberg – Bashkortostan”, the
friendship society “ Bridges to Ufa”, Leyenhof, the manufacturing
society “Agidel”.
1)Preparation:
1) to study the experience of organizing a work in German weaving workshops;
2) to work out a curriculum and a course of studies “ Manual weaving” incooperation with Leyenhof, Lautenbakh, Ferinbul (in
2)Arrangement:
1)Assembling of
2) Elaboration of working instructions for disabled people (in 2015)
3)Realisation of the training course “Manual weaving”.
3)Completion:
1) to present the experience at the regional, federal and international
levels, including the UNESCO scientific educational resource center
(in2015 –2017)
2) to lay down the prospects of developing manual weaver production for disabled people in Russia.
4)Essence of project
1) discussion of creating training weaving workshops in Salavat at the round- table meeting in Eslingen (December, 2014)
2) arranging Internationaldiscussion in SAEI SPE Salavat collegeof education and professional technologies
3) organizing round- table meetings inSAEI SPE Salavat college of education and professional technologies to discuss problems of arranging disabled people at the labour market (April 8, 2015; July 2015)
4) organizing in German rehabilitation centers the experience exchange courses on the problemsof arranging disabled people at the labour market (a person in each year – 2013, 2014, 2015)
5) arranging courses of improvement of professional skills (in
6) presenting the first- rate work of themanufacturing society “Agidel” (in
7) functioning of the republican experimental laboratory titled “ Raising of disabled people’s social successfulness in the system of continuous inclusive education” (in
8)holding scientific conferences (in
Prospects of development:
1) arranging disabled people at the labour market
2) creating training workshops of manual weaving for disabled people where unique goods will be made generalization and dissemination of experience on training in weaving workshops of SAEI SPE Salavat college of education and professional technologies.