the cotton field (karbos) with satin-stitch embroidery in silk and wool, the central field with three rows of four red medallions, the border with a band of smaller medallions
237 x 190cm

Footnotes

An almost identical paliak susani is illustrated in Susani Stickereien aus Mittelasien, exhibition catalogue, Mannheim, 1981, p. 59.

In Tashkent and the Tashkent region the largest embroidered panels were called paliaks. The central part of this panel and its border are filled with round rosettes of various sizes associated by local embroideresses with the moon. Tashkent is one of the oldest towns in Central Asia and the worship of astrological bodies was integral to the religious practices of the ancient agricultural population of the region. Traditionally, an Oi paliak would have formed part of a woman's dowry. The monumental decorative treatment and monochromatic colouring is evocative of rugs of the same region.

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A Tashkent Oi Paliak Susani Uzbekistan, second half 19th Century

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