Surveys of friends, we found out that among crafts there is a ne for pottery, working with birch bark, beads, wood carving and weaving. How did you come up with the name and what does this magical “As alang” mean? When we decid to create a craft center.
We were inspir by the beauty and grandeur of
Siberian nature, and especially the Ob River, which connects the hearts of the Khanty and Mansi peoples. The idea arose to call our center “As Alang” – translat as “Obi morning”. This name became a symbol of a new beginning, fresh ideas, inspiration.
Where did you start: what premises, craftsmen, materials?
I head the center in 2019, having return to the country, to my homeland. There was no start-up capital, because so I took 1,000 rubles from my husband and went to study the basics of entrepreneurship for two days, and return as a investor database different person. At first, I work from home: we didn’t have our own space, and the center was organizing off-site master classes.
Then I rent a small space we expand, and soon
The question of opening a workshop arose, which I really want. There were two options renting or buying our own space. Having weigh all the the list responsibilities are the pros and cons, we clos our eyes and took out a loan to buy it. We renovat a 316-square-meter space, set up a workshop, purchas equipment and materials. We start with small orders for souvenirs, the sketches for which.
I came up with myself
Later, the team was join by master artist Eleonora Prokhorovna Mitrofanova, who is still the soul and perpetual engine of our workshop. Elvira Kosterina, head of the As Alang project In what year was the center found? You came to it in 2019, but it turns out usa data that it somehow exist before that? In 2011, and I came in 2019.