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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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Woodcarving
The works of the foremen in this area differ by a variety and refined forms, grace of a furnish. Such trees, as a linden, a birch, a maple, an apple-tree are only used. Different kind of utensils: salt-sellers, lockers for a storage of bread, casket, trays, dishes, vessels and, certainly, famous ladles for beer were decorated with the groove.
The universal distribution among the Chuvash people had the carved ladles. Giants, as them named in the people, with a size one and a half meter, used at cooking beer, and small ones were used during holidays. The technology included volumetric, fluting and relief groove.
Such daily utensils as wooden bowls, dishes, salt cellars, stops were served in a life of country family. In contrast to celebratory utensils - bratinas and carved ladles for beer, they were decorated more modestly, but differed by riches of the forms produced by the foremen for many centuries.
The home utensils was made usually of the whole piece of a tree, often from rhizome, battering, or groovштп. The form, the sizes of utensils, and also material, chosen for it, were always dictated by its purpose. It is glorified by masters - cabinet-makers, which create their own hand music instruments: domras, guitars, violins, goose. This in the same way traditional chuvash music instruments: shakarma (the sort of the mallet), rattle, shakar(the type of the bagpipe), sarnash (the sort of the fife with broad flare), palnaj, shashlich (the whistle), drum. The Master in their own product not only obtains the purities of the sound, but also trys to create some determined image.
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