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Birch bark master Yulia Strashkina will introduce you to the process of making a tues. Tues is the most common item made of birch bark. Since ancient times, birch bark containers were used to store everything from fresh wild berries to salted mushrooms. The unique properties of the material allowed products to remain fresh for a long time. Large containers of 1-2 buckets were used to store flour and cereals, as well as pickles, smaller ones were used for kvass, milk, sour cream and honey, and very small tues were used as salt shakers. However, technologically, they are all made almost the same.