Magenta Vintage Tashkent-Style Suzani – White Moon Dots
$54.00
Medium vintage suzani, wall hanging or table cover — hand embroidery, silk on cotton. Size 136 × 126 cm (54 × 50 in). Uzbekistan, Tashkent-style. Soviet-era. Ships from Bukhara by tracked airmail: USA 9–18 working days, Europe and the UK 8–16, elsewhere 10–20.
1 in stock (can be backordered)
The “moon” suzani of Tashkent, in its late form: a magenta-pink cotton ground covered with columns of white discs, each disc set in a diamond of green stems, so that the whole field reads as a lattice of full moons. There is no central medallion; the repeat runs edge to edge and stops at a black border studded with white dots. The design is the descendant of the great nineteenth-century oy-palak (“moon sky”) embroideries of Tashkent, reduced to its essentials by a Soviet-era household hand.
Silk thread on cotton, hand-embroidered; vintage, not antique. The magenta is the strong synthetic pink of its period.
Product details
- Type: medium vintage suzani, wall hanging or table cover
- Origin: Uzbekistan, Tashkent-style
- Period: Soviet-era
- Technique: hand embroidery, silk on cotton
- Size: 136 × 126 cm (54 × 50 in)
- Colours: magenta ground; white; green; black
- Motif: moon-disc lattice, no central medallion
- Condition: vintage, as photographed
- Care: dry-clean, or gentle hand wash at 30 °C, dry flat in the shade, iron on the reverse; never machine wash
Character and use
A repeat pattern rather than a picture, so it can hang either way up and works as a table cover where a central roundel would fight the place settings. Other 1–2 m² pieces: Medium Suzani; the moon motif: what symbols are hidden in suzani. Ships from Bukhara by tracked airmail: USA 9–18 working days, Europe and the UK 8–16, elsewhere 10–20.
| Weight | 1.6 kg |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 126 × 136 cm |
