50 g of gold to go for each Slutsk sash copy

As Euroradio informed before, there was no equipment which could make a copy of the Slutsk sash in Belarus. The equipment was ordered in Germany, while the employees of the factory "Slutsk sashes" are already looking for the packaging options for original and gift sashes.

"We are performing reconstruction works and buy the equipment at present", - they modestly tell us at the factory. They also say that the first sashes may appear already in June. 

The director of the museum of ancient history Barys Lazuka explains that the factory will produce two types of sashes:

"There is a concept of an analogue-copy and a souvenir. An analogue is a copy that is as close to the original as possible. Naturally, the cost it will be great. There are different proposals with regard to raw materials, and the way the threads will be entwisted - by gold or silver. About 50 grams of gold will go for a sash, so you can calculate the cost. However, it will be a single product."

The price for such a sash will be approximately $1-2 thousand, depending on the quantity of gold or silver. However, no one has calculated the price so far.

It is planned that the factory will produce also souvenir sashes, made of artificial silk and not real gold. Barys Lazuka has said to Euroradio that an average person will not distinguish them from the expensive copies.

In Slutsk, they produce the sashes that remind the famous Slutsk sashes only by the image and size today. They cost about 4 million roubles.

"Our sashes are hand-made and it takes 2 months to make one. This is why the price is 4 million. If it is made of silk, then it will probably cost about 5 million, and if real gold is used it will be much more expensive." 

Even the packaging for the future analogue and souvenir copies of the Slutsk sashes is valued at 800 million rubles for all products.

The packaging should also be a work of art, they say at the factory. There should be the manufacturer's name in Belarusian and English, an image of the Slutsk sash and of the town of Slutsk, and the trademark "Slutsk sashes". The length of the sash will be from 200 to 480 cm, the width - 20 to 40. For comparison, the length of the sash stored in Bahdanovich museum is 360, the width - 30 cm.

The factory building will be decorated by an enlarged coloured image of the Slutsk sash - one of the five that exist in Belarus today.