Among Zoroastrian burial items, there is a camel-shaped zoomorphic OSTADON lying there. It was found…
The State Museum of Arts exhibits such types of small-scale embroidery as oina-khalta and shona-khalta (bags for mirrors and drummers), kyiikcha, mienband, chorsu and belbok (types of men’s belt shawls), duppi (skullcaps), sarpokkun, koziklungi and tanpokkun (towels with embroidered ends), bugzhoma (cloth for wrapping dresses), sarandoz and rumoli- peshonaband (women’s shawls and hats), dast rumol (handkerchiefs), jiaki – embroidered braid to decorate clothing items, etc.
Embroidery was done mostly with silk threads and painted with natural dyes, and calico and adras were used as warp threads. The most common types of seams were bosma and yurma.
You can learn more about this topic in the book-album “The Collection of the State Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan” (Volume XIII) from the series “Cultural legacy of Uzbekistan in the world collections”.
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