Tatar language | Unique Leather Mosaic of the Tatars

We are celebrating women today!

And everyday!

Female power is embedded in beauty of the world around and within!

What can be more expressive of female beauty than art and poetry!

This Tatar leather-textile-text-art-insipred collage features a beautiful exerpt from Gөlnaz Deniz poetry. It enlightens us of impossibility to be tired of beauty (maturlıkneñ eçenä qayvaqıt sıyıp bulmıy),its encompassing presence (soklanıp tuıp bulmıy. “Soklanu” loosely equates “to be in awe” in English).

The way Gөlnaz describes the feeling, when beauty and love are intentangled and make you fly, (Möldörämä tulğan hislär, tügelсә – tıyıp bulmıy) is untranslatable! It is worth to learn the endangered Tatar language just to feel the Tatar expressive poems that help connect us to ourselves and the world!

Here is one more treat from Gөlnaz Garipova-Deniz, poet, Tatar literature expert, educator. This poem is very lyrical. Here is how it is performed by Tatar singer Guzel Urazova. Interested in the meaning of the lyrics? Reach out to AlimaAcademy to signup for the Tatar Poetry course.

Comparing yourself with others is, generally, considered non-productive since each person is different, exceptional in their own way. But if urge to compare is stronger than ever, change the subject: compare the boots (they wouldn’t mind…). The boots that are beautifully decorated and carry the wisdom and warmth of generations through ethnic designs and intensive crafting! The boots that excite with all the attention to the owner, when worn! Look at the boots created with several leather crafting technologies and, definitely, with the purpose to impress (and keep an evil eye away).

These boots are crafted with three technologies of applying the leather ornaments: inlay, overlay and mosaic. Inlay and overlay attach colorful leather elements using the machine. Leather mosaic attaches the simplistic decorative cutout pieces from the inside of the boot by hand-stitching. The Tatar leather mosaic is the most complex, intricate and manual labour-intesive. The boots created with the Tatar leather mosaic technology is called shchiteq (shchiteqler for plural) in the Tatar language, the language of the Tatar people, the people who have been mastering the Art of Tatar Leather Mosaic for centuries.