The tycoons and burgers had a big wooden chest with decorations на кантах , black or green. The making of the chests often became a trade. They were made from pire or fir planks on legs with ornaments, often on wooden or forged rings!!!. On the sides there were handels, in front of the chest there was a lock inside or a latch for padlock.

Vera Alexandrovna Pochebyt, inhabintant of Yuzhny region (district), remembers: Our chest was big, decorated with iron strips , ornamented on the edges. The front and the top were not painted, but decorated too with iron handels easy to carry.

Under the influence of baroque of western Europe the chest got a convex top and sometimes were narrowed down. Simple monochrome coloring was changed by decorative coloring, usually флядройкай!!!,which imitated valuable species of the trees. From the beginning of the 20 century the coloring often had the theme of plants. It was the influence from the Ukraine. The people preferred the pictures with bouquets and garlands of flowers, linked in form of squares or rectangles. The pictures were made by hand, sometimes with stencils. But ЦАЦКАВАННе!!! dominated in Grodno region. The pattern was applied to the painted surface using stamps from potatoes or turnips.

Small geometric and plant motives ( stars, leaves, crosses) of white, yellow, red colours were in the form of strips along the edges on a blue or cherry background.

р”