Blue on Red Uzbek Suzani Wall Hanging – All-Over Rosettes

Red and blue, and almost nothing else: the red cotton ground is covered edge to edge with blue rosettes shaded in white, joined by blue vines and interrupted by rows of blue roundels, so dense that the red reads as a background colour rather than a ground. In the middle a rectangular panel is left in plain red, framed by the embroidery — the traditional place for a folded quilt or a tray when the cloth lay on the floor, and now simply a rest for the eye. A blue-and-white floral border completes it.

Silk thread on cotton, hand-embroidered in Uzbekistan; the density and evenness are those of new work. Newly embroidered for Alesouk in the traditional stitches; it arrives clean, even and bright.

Product details

• Type: large suzani, wall hanging, bedspread or throw
• Origin: Uzbekistan
• Condition: new
• Technique: hand embroidery, silk on cotton, fully covered field
• Size: 220 × 135 cm (87 × 53 in)
• Colours: red ground; blue; white
• Motif: all-over rosettes and vines, plain central panel, roundel rows
• Care: dry-clean preferred for dense work

Character and use

Two colours make it easy to place: a blue room or a white one. As a bed cover it is single-bed size with a drop; on a wall it wants 2.3 m. Large Suzani; stitches in how is suzani made. Ships from Bukhara by tracked airmail: USA 9–18 working days, Europe and the UK 8–16, elsewhere 10–20.