Among Zoroastrian burial items, there is a camel-shaped zoomorphic OSTADON lying there. It was found…
In the 19th – early 20th centuries the main material for gold embroidery was velvet (bakhmal); silk, local semi-silk fabric called alocha, wool fabrics, muslin and leather were used less often.
Velvet decorated with gold embroidery was utilized mainly for the production of men’s robes, horse cloths and shoes. Robes were made mainly from velvet, which was brought from Russia, France, Turkey, Iran, Syria and India. Mass-production velvet was plain, striped, checked or patterned. However, unicolor velvet was preferred, especially green, red, purple and blue fabrics. Bakhmal velvet from Bukhara was also used sometimes for the production. Embroidery threads were mainly imported from India. In the middle of the 19th century, Russia became the main supplier of gold threads.
You can learn more about the topic in the book-album "The Collection of the Czech Republic" (Volume XVI) in the series "Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan in the World Collections".
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