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National Art Crafts of Chuvashia
- Heritage
- Embroidery
- Embellishment from beads and coins
- Ceramics
- Woodcarving
- Rod making
- Weaving
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Embellishment from beads and coins
The Embellishment from beads and silver present itself one of the bright and original phenomena in histories of the development of the Chuvash public art. The Public embellishment - not simply subjects, called to satisfy aesthetic needs. This entailment presentations of folk in design, the form of the certain subject, symbolize the model of the world or his its part.
The Beads and sinks as embellishment appeared beside limit of the Chuvash people in very ancient times. The Chuvash people had the tradition to decorate itself jewelry from precious metal. In kit of the decorations or in suit, executed in technology of the needlework by silver and beads, enters feminine and headdresses chushpu and tuchja, breast embellishment ama, shulkeme, maiden headdress tuchja, embellishment tevet, cervical embellishment alka, push' chushe, ear sarka and others. Here pertain the bracelet - put, ringlet and seal-rings to sulphur. Feminine and girlish embellishment of the Chuvash people amongst Volga region folk have their own analogies in suit mary, mordva (neighbouring countries).
The Bead headdresses and embellishment were made in home conditions from bathed material. The Beads were often used and for fabrications of the cervical decorations серке (the most ancient form of the necklace in the manner of broad large turndown collar with clasp behind), necklaces in the manner of glass-beads with lavaliere from sinks. People strung from it the lavalieres for scythes, cysts and belt decoration. The Ornament of the bead needlework is similar geometric ornament embroideries. The Master avoided the cool tone in needlework. For instance, on headdresses people tried not to sew on blue or blue colour since blue was considered by symbol to deaths. The Public master boldly placed the red beads on red background of the base, obtained this saturated colour, person of power of the influence on spectator. The Big place in decorations spared liberally drooping coin to value miscellaneous, bead cyst and etc. The Coins were sewn on in base 2-5 rows (depending on nature embellishment), less - in even row, complied with the even rhythmic formation.
The Coins were used with different value from dime before fifty kopecks, using found and silver roubles. Except persisting silver coins (in the manner of oval) were used cheap artificial such forms the known under name nuchratks. Much nuchratks were sewn on back part of chushpu and tuchja, which were quite often alternated with beads and braid. The more various was a decoration in pattern and colour combination, the richer was the man and the more skilled was considered its owner. Tuneful ringing the hinginging details when moving, performance dance were formed in the beautiful music.
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