Icons of various icon painting centers and studios differed from each other in theme as well in level of skill The village Mstera was famous for "old style" icons of the Moscow and Novgorod "manners." In Palekh, icon painters possessed the most diverse methods of "detailed" (melochnoi) miniature painting. Faces were painstakingly modeled, and clothing embellished with gold dust (assist) and decorated with the most delicate interlace ornaments.