For a believer, an icon is an indispensable attribute of life. Icons illuminate the house, because the house of a Christian is a symbol of the temple of God, and each temple has its own sacred altar. In the house, a red corner with icons serves as such an altar. They say that a house without images is like without windows. But what you should know and keep in mind when decorating your home with icons.
Instruction manual
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The red corner is the most important and honorable place in the house. Here are the icons in the shrine or icon case - a special open cabinet or shelf with a lamp. Icons must be standing, do not hang them. The Virgin should be wooden. Often it is decorated with a special long and narrow woven towel from homespun canvas - a god who covers the icons from above and from the sides, but does not cover the faces of the saints depicted in the images. God at the ends was usually decorated with embroidery.
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Another way to decorate the icons is a robe or salary. This is an overhead decoration that covers the entire icon board on top of a layer of paint, except for hands and faces for which slots are made. Robe can be gold, silver, brass, copper, sewn, from beads, decorated with enamel, stained glass and upholstered velvet from the inside.
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In the temple, a lectern with an icon can be decorated with flowers. To do this, take a sheet of chipboard slightly larger than the icon, cut out a square in this sheet, sufficient to place the icon inside the free space. Get a special floristic oasis in the form of a long bar in the tray, which is fastened with screws to the chipboard. Then insert into the oasis any flowers suitable for the occasion: roses, carnations or chrysanthemums.
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Instead of chipboard, you can make a wire frame, and fix flowers and floral greens without tape oasis. However, in this case, the flowers can quickly wither. You can protect flowers from wilting in this way: wrap the roots with a wet cloth and place it in a fingertip filled with water.
