Textile Nativity Scene – 14 Figures

In the dark season, bright memories make our paths visible. They preserve the most joyful moments, the love and care of people dear to us, and the magic of a family holiday, including Christmas. It emerges from memory with warm hugs, sincere smiles, childish dreams, and the scents of lemon, fir, and poppy.

Full of sacredness and sincere hopes, Christmas symbolizes the purity and spirituality that the coming of Jesus Christ bestows. Many canonical and apocryphal texts about the birth of the Son of God have been preserved. Interpreting them, people for two millennia, each in their own way, have shown reverence for Jesus — in prayer, songs, or ritual actions. Among them, the tradition of setting up a nativity scene — a composition of the Nativity of Christ — has survived.

The ancient tradition of the nativity scene dates back to the times when illiterate parishioners were told the biblical story of the birth of little Jesus in Bethlehem in church with the help of sculptural compositions. Later, when cities grew and the number of townspeople increased, nativity scenes began to be set up in front of the cathedral. Even further, costumed performances were staged using bright costumes, iconic attributes, puppet theater, and song-stories about the Miracle-Wonderful. We preserve this tradition, telling in fairy tales-legends and singing in carol songs to our children and grandchildren about the power of love and goodness that govern our world. If not always on weekdays, then on holidays – definitely!

“Oh, rejoice, Earth, the Son of God is born!”

The nativity scene includes: 2 lambs, 2 donkeys, three shepherds, three kings, 2 angels, Mary, Joseph.