Among Zoroastrian burial items, there is a camel-shaped zoomorphic OSTADON lying there. It was found…
The art of carpet weaving is rooted in remote antiquity. Various samples of carpet products of the 19th – 20th centuries are kept in the republican museums, including the State Museum of the History of Uzbekistan, which has significant collections. Carpet weaving as a woman’s handicraft at home developed in almost every cattle-breeding and cattle-breeding – agricultural region.
The flat-woven carpeting is varied in technique and ornamentation. They could be made on narrow-warp or wide-warp looms. In the first case, pre-woven narrow panels were sewn together to form the finished product. In this way, carpets, known under the general name sholgilam or olacha gilam, covers for wrapping clothes bugzhoma, saddle bags khurjins, kap and napramach bags for transporting and storing clothes and bedding, bags of various sizes for kitchen utensils and products non-kap, chumuchkap, oyna-kap, ayran-turva, horse cloth zhul, wide and narrow bands for fastening and tightening various parts of the yurt, etc. were woven.
You can learn more about the topic in the book-album "The Collection of the State Museum of the History of Uzbekistan" (Part 2, Volume XXVII) in the series "Сultural legacy of Uzbekistan in the world collections".
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