The creative community of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs encompasses a variety of talents and great potential Turkmenistan, craftsmen and artisans create works of art and colorful souvenirs with elements of national flavor.
Anna Saparova believes that there are not many bags for a woman, and in order not to be bored while on parental leave, she set about creating exclusive bags first for herself, acquaintances and friends, and then thought about transforming her hobby into a small business. The basis for roomy and compact bags – on the way out, for purchases are various coarse and dense fabrics, and zippers, embroidery elements, inlays, and kethen inserts are superimposed on top of them according to their own design. For eight years, its products have become recognizable to the residents of the capital, as well as loved by foreign tourists.
Ruslan Rejepov from Turkmenabat (Lebap Velayat) is a ceramic potter who makes jugs, vases in the form of pomegranates, including broken ones, and all kinds of vessels on a potter's wheel. Ceramic tableware or decorative items go through a multi-stage path from a pottery machine to a kiln, and then they are painted by an artist. Garnet vases have become a popular brand of artistic ceramics Turkmenistan. The "pomegranate" of the Lebap master exactly repeats the shape and color of the fruit shell, is covered with glaze, is subject to two times firing at a temperature of 1000 degrees Celsius. The master also makes tandoori for cooking kebabs on an iron grill or skewers.
Olga Ragulina, a private craftsman, produces souvenirs based on primed textiles. These are figures of animals and people. Ethnic textured dolls - all with folk attributes a Turkmen costume. Each doll has its own character, professional occupation. All the accessories, including the festive style of clothing and jewelry, fully correspond to the folklore image of different generations of the Turkmen family. In her technique, the craftswoman makes objects on magnets, Christmas tree toys, complexes of felt-based jewelry with carpet patterns with braided wool rope aladja edged. There are also unusual "inventions" - key rings with bunches of grapes, currants, where the berries are made of multicolored agate.
MGAKH graduate Govher Seyitjanova has been collecting and studying the forms of ancient silver jewelry of famous Caspian Yomud zergers for a long time, reproducing them in a new interpretation, trying to preserve the idea of the authors, bringing her own small improvements. The decorations have elements of antiquity. One "bears" the "begler" pattern, it was created based on Fragy's poem of the same name, the other is used for prayer nightmares. The ornament of the Caspian Turkmens "dyrnak gel" is used, where marine colors are present. Jewelry is also full of colors of natural semi-precious stones.
Maral Nuriyeva works with epoxy resin, creates watches on a flat base decorated with natural minerals – rose quartz, rock crystal, as well as living plants – herbarium specimens, paintings. There are clocks with state symbols, colors of applied crafts, as well as trays, coffee tables. And Jennet Kurbanova practices stained glass painting, painting glass with acrylic paints. The artist writes from the front side, covers it with a protective mixture. The master has been working in this style for six years, the author's "handwriting" has already been developed, but she herself believes that he is still at the beginning of his creative career.
Andrey Medvedev, a retired seismologist and archaeologist, has mastered the profession of a saddler for three years and has made great progress in a new field. He uses a bull's hide, his work is an unusual word in the folk crafts of the country. These are durable leather ones, high-quality accessories that will last for many years. To engage in the work of the master was prompted by participation in expeditions on the territory of Turkmenistan. The master makes hiking, hiking and shepherd items. The works of the master of the leather business from Turkmenistan is known in Russia, CIS countries, Asia, each product handmade in an original and unique way.
