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Jewellery of the Kazan Tatars
Kazan Tatars`s ornaments are notable for great variety. They are earrings, beads, necklaces, claps, fasteners, shoulder-belt, bracelets, and seal-ring. The center of the Jewellery production was Kazan . The great flowering this art reached by the middle of the XIXth. century. Adornments were particular made of silver, rarely gold was used. Such techniques as gilding, chasing, mounding, engraving, filigree were widespread. The most original ornament of the Kazan's women was a shoulder-belt. It was worn across the left shoulder and under the right arm by both girls and elderly women. Very often a box with the inscription from Koran was sewed to it. Distinctive and refined collar claps were indispensable adornment of the rich Muslim women. In these adornments not only topaz, amethyst, turquoise, malachite, cornelian, agate were used but also a lot of coloured glass.
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Gifts by the Emirs of Bukhara
Diplomatic relations between Russia and States of the Central Asia were getting on during several centuries. They supposed the obligatory exchanging with ambassadorial gifts and presents. The gift set was constant: robes, belts/sashes, luxurious fabrics, horse-gear and weapons.
These were the best samples of Central Asian applied arts. One of the most prestigious gift was a robe - the sign of respect for the person to whom it was presented. At the exhibition a velvet robe decorated with pearl is displayed. Such a robe was worn without any belt, but under robe was girded with the belt with the golden plates and turquoise and gems mounts. Also here the filigree casket strew with small turquoise mounts and almandine cabochons is presented. Of the ceremonial horse-gear one can see a shabrack decorated with golden embroidery and silver pendants. Gold embroidery was made only by men in the workshops of the Emirs of Bukhara and was considered as the respectable profession.
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