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Uzbek, Bukhara Uzbekistan

Textile length, 2005-2006

Description

Maker

Unknown

Culture

Uzbek

Title

Textile length

Year

2005-2006

Medium

Silk and cotton plain weave, ikat dyed

Materials/Techniques

Materials

silk,
cotton

Techniques

ikat,
plain weave

Dimensions

Length: 301 cm (118 1/2 inches)

Place

Bukhara; Uzbekistan

Type

Textiles

Credit

Edgar J. Lownes Fund

Object Number

2006.59

Exhibition History

Turn Left at the Camel

October 20, 2006 - February 11, 2007

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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