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Zany for suzanis

Monday, January 26th, 2009

I went shopping.  Virtually.  Really!  I was here at the schoolhouse.  Backstory.  I have been seeing suzanis everywhere.  Design magazines, blogs, advertisements.  I wanted to learn more.  And perhaps secretly wanted to own one.
Suzani, which means needlework in Persian, are embroidered textiles from Central Asia; Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan.
Lurid embroidery on silk or cotton grounds suzanis are [...]

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