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Jewellery of the Kazan Tatars |
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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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| Alka Earrings. Kazan Tartars. Kazan Gubernia. Early 20th century. |
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| Chulpa plait decoration. Kazan Tartars. Kazan Gubernia. 19th century |
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| Bayazek braceletets. Kazan Tartars. Kazan Gubernia. Late 19th early 20th century |
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| Jewellery of the Kazan Tatars |
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