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Unknown Maker, Uzbek

Textile length

Maker

Unknown Maker, Uzbek

Culture

Uzbek

Title

Textile length

Year

2005-2006

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

silk, cotton

Geography

Place Made: Bukhara; Place Made: Uzbekistan

Dimensions

Length: 301 cm (118 1/2 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Edgar J. Lownes Fund

Object Number

2006.59

Type

Exhibition History

Turn Left at the Camel
A Curator's Tale of Uzbekistan
Oct 20, 2006 – Feb 11, 2007

Label copy

The weaver of this textile, originally from the Fergana Valley, has moved to Bukhara to practice his trade in a new crafts gallery, housed in a renovated madrassah (Islamic school building) sponsored by US-AID. He weaves satin (atlas) cloth on a hand loom using a fly shuttle. This mechanism controls the passage of the weft threads through the cloth and allows him to work more quickly than if he had to pass the shuttle back and forth by hand.

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Tombstone

Unknown Maker, Uzbek
Textile length, 2005-2006
Silk and cotton plain weave, ikat dyed
Length: 301 cm (118 1/2 inches)
Edgar J. Lownes Fund 2006.59

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