Zany for suzanis
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 bold. Under Soviet rule, chemical dyes made their way to the hinterland provinces and found a home in these durable textiles. Turquoise, magenta, canary yellow, jet black, colors not found in nature, but in the dye vat. All of these found their way into the suzani. Which makes for a very bold, graphic statement.
So one evening while I was perusing suzanis online, I found myself shopping for suzanis from the ‘stans. I found two. Here they are.
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