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For one of the oldest types of craft are leather products, fur products. In the Far North since time immemorial was formed and reached a high level of skill of making artistic production of reindeer skins, campuses, furs, fur-bearing animals, pelts of sea animals (seals), as well as the manufacture of homemade deerskin or elk suede - rovduga. On the boundless expanse of the North are living people with a small number, but each of the nations has its own ancient national culture and its rituals and customs, their songs and dances, their methods of decorative design of household products.

For all the peoples of the Far North has been characterized by the uniformity of the economic way of life, dictated by the uniqueness of the environment, living conditions and life. Working hides, clothing, shoes, hats, bags, gloves and other leather goods, fur garment doing all the small nations living in the European part of Russia, the Evenkiand Nganasans Krasnoyarsk, Baikal region, southern Yakutia, Chita region, and Yukagirs Evens north of Yakutia, Kamchatka, Koryak, theChukchi and Eskimos of Chukotka. The ancient method of decorating clothing and household items was fur mosaic. Many women mentioned areas and now are fluent in this art.

Of dark and bright skins of deer, they cut out the pieces and artfully combine them into a pattern. Use another method of decorating products - embroidery podsheynym hair of a deer. Especially in this kind of virtuoso of the traditional skills possessed Yukagirs, and theEvenki they produced beautiful leather products, fur products. The indigenous people of the Taimyr Peninsula - Nenets and Nganasans - decorated their clothes narrow strips of two-color applique geometric ornament.

Most of these were rows of terraced forms, cut out of the skin, dark brown or black, and sewn on the bright stripes leather. Evenki andEvens in the design of clothing used beadwork. For example, the fringe on the lap coats, cuff sleeves, frill hat and other leather products, fur products. Beaded inserts were on a shoe-boots.

At present, national art artistic processing of materials has not lost its force of attraction. Even in today's day run national clothes, bags, slippers and all kinds of rugs. Art Masters of the Far North in the field of leather, fur goods generously manifested in the manufacture of hats, which are widely used beads, fur and embroidery, mosaic podsheynym hair. It is made of small pieces of Ski skins and suede with the addition of beads makes a variety of breast jewelry: brooches, pins, pendants and many other products, presenting original souvenirs - the memory of the original art of the North, Siberia and the Far East.

In every form of arts and crafts are abundant opportunities to create things with considerable aesthetic value, as evidenced by the masters and experience of previous generations, and works by specialists of our time. Proof of this are the collections of museums, in which the products are stored along with works of painting, sculpture, graphics, leather, fur garments. Art of Modern folk artisans demonstrate crafts of the largest exhibitions in the country and abroad. Their work received diplomas, medals and other awards at prestigious festivals and competitions.