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\nLast week I wrote about silk ikats of Central Asia.  Today I wish to share another beautiful
\ntraditional textile from Central Asia, an embroidered susani.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nSusanis are large, embroidered panels which have various
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\nexamples had a foundation of cotton that was locally produced and woven.  Home-loomed lengths of cotton were usually
\n14-15 inches in width. To make a large susani, four to six strips of ground
\nfabric are stitched side to side.  The
\ndesign is sketched unto the foundation and the strips are separated.  The embroidery is not worked on the entire
\nsurface of the large cloth but on the narrower panels (sometimes by several
\nworkers).  The strips are then sewn back
\ntogether after the embroidery is completed. 
\nFor this reason, slight misaligments of the design and variations in
\ncolor may occur from strip to strip. After the textile is reassembled, a
\nbacking is attached for strength.  Early
\nsusanis from the 1800\u2019s had silk ikat backings. 
\nWhen silk ikat became fashionable (and costly) it was replaced with printed
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\n Susanis were major
\ntextiles in dowries. Since large susanis required about 2 years for completion
\nand since most women in this society were married by the age of 15, a mother
\nwould begin to embroider as soon as a daughter was born.  Tradition required that the bride\u2019s
\ngrandmother draw the design, although professional craftswomen were often hired
\nto draw the pattern onto the ground fabric and choose the main colors that
\nwould be used.  In Samarkand a susani
\nwas placed over the head of the bride as she was taken to the home of the
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Susanis, Embroidered Textiles of Central Asia Last week I wrote about silk ikats of Central Asia.  Today I wish to share another beautiful traditional textile from Central Asia, an embroidered susani.    Traditional Textiles of Central Asia, Janet Harvey, Thames and Hudson, 1996  Embroidered Textiles: A World Guide to Traditional Patterns, Sheila Paine, Thames and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}