Tatar people has a long and colorful culture.His life, joys and sorrows, wars and alliances, lifestyle, beliefs were reflected in the works.Since ancient people, history and culture goes back centuries.In his life and outlook differed from the nation who settled near the tribes and was detached.Therefore, for example, the Tatar ornament used to decorate clothing, household items, home is a distinctive and unique.
Types of ornament styles and motifs
Lifestyle people significantly affected the patterns that adorn the various products.Mostly Tatar national ornament has a pronounced influence of ancient agriculture.But if you carefully study the works of the masters, we can see that the manifest influence of the culture of the nomadic herding ancestors of the people.
Tatar patterns and ornaments are three types of motifs: geometric, floral and vegetative and zoomorphic.A characteristic feature is the contour of their completion.
Flower and floral ornament and use
patterns used masters for centuries in many areas of applied arts: architecture, embroidery, painting and wood carving.Tatar ornament with floral and plant motifs is the most common.Masters created from simple shapes and complex bouquet.The colors that are used for ornament, bright, rich and well combined.The motives are stylized and have many interpretations.The important role played by the order in which the elements of the pattern are located and how to combine with each other.
in floral-plant motifs, which are used for work, there are three areas: steppe, meadow and garden.Depending on what area resident master or mistress, or that Tatar patterns and ornaments prevailed.For steppe areas more characteristic motifs depicting stylized poppies, tulips, forget-me, carnations.Meadow full of flowers of wild rose motifs, bells, daisies, cornflowers.Garden areas were characteristic of urban settlements.Depicting mostly dahlias, chrysanthemums, roses, asters.The most common two flowers, which are used by the Tatar ornament.Tulips and carnations are the main motives.
geometric and zoomorphic motifs
zoomorphic figures are not used.This is due to the exigencies of religion, so that the Tatar ornament rarely contains images of animals.However, the craftsmen who still dare to zoomorphic motifs in their products, stylize them so that you can not always understand what the beast is depicted.
Tatar often geometric ornament is not a separate element of the product, and perform support functions.Using figures depends on what the image is applied.For example, in weaving geometric motifs predominate, and embroidery - floral arranged with geometric precision.
elements used in the ornament.Their capabilities.Methods of transmission of ideas Wizard
First of all, pay attention to the way used in the Tatar ornament tulip.It is presented in the form of a pointed trefoil with different degrees of bending.Less common cinquefoil.The wavy lines under the master's hand grows leaves and form a "vine".
in one branch may be, and grapes, and meander, and dahlias, and cloves.Tatar ornament with geometric motifs used as a simple shapes (triangles, diamonds, circles, squares) and complex (hexagon socket, stepped shape, eight-pointed star).
Floral ornament has another distinctive feature - the asymmetry of the elements.On one branch perfectly get flowers that nature never grow or bloom next in different months of the year.
value of tulip in the culture and ornament
Every nation has its own character, which has meaning only for him.Many artists use the Tatar ornament, in which the main motif is a tulip.For this people is, above all, a symbol of rebirth.Tulip is the flag of Tatarstan.
Secondly, the tulip is inextricably linked with the religious beliefs of the Muslim world.The flower associated with the name of Allah.Writing in the Arabic name of the plant consists of the same letters as the name of the god of the Muslim world.In terms of numerological system Abadjiev (each letter has its own number) the sum of the letters in the word "tulip" and "Allah" is the same and equal to 66.
Rose also finds frequent display in Tatar ornaments.Again, for religious reasons: it is a symbol of the Prophet Muhammad.Although highly stylized flowers, a man who understands the characters and culture of the Tatar people, be sure to be able to read Tatar ornament.
