The article is devoted to the Central Draw workshop of Ivanovo-Voznesensk State Textile Trust. It is the first try to examine the community of the artists as the phenomenon of the local industrial history. To solve the problem the sources of the Ivanovo State Museum of local history documentary fund and the Head of the workshop P. Leonov’s book of notes from a private collection were used. The common central draw workshop establishment contributed to the strengthening of the Trust role as the industrial commercial unit. The drawings developed in the workshop were put into production at several factories of the region, the textile was sold under the Ivanovo-Voznesensk State Textile Trust brand and the drawings individuality was leveled. The Drawing Workshop regulated and ruled the process of textile ornament creation in the Ivanovo-Voznesensk region. Its development determinates the periods of the region textile design school development. Peter Leonov the leader of the Drawing wokshop played the great role in its forming mostly determinate the HR policy. The article contains a lot of documental material that shows the artists stuff of the workshop, their service records, salaries and some other aspects. It deals the works of the several artists who has put a special track in the regional industrial design. V. Maslov and F. Antonov’s textile ornament sketches are published for the first time and introduced into the scientific turnover. It was joined the collection of Burylin museum in 2020. The work is important for the attribution of the agitation textile manufactured in Ivanovo and illustrates the main stages of the Ivanovo agitation ornament development.