Laukh - sliding wooden stand for the books

Laukh - sliding wooden stand for the books - one of the original products, which is when - or created Uzbek carvers. Hard to believe, but this complex structure is made of a piece of wood without a single nail, and without the use of glue or joints. Skilled craftsmen can produce laukh ten - twelve levels. On a pedestal but books can be placed pencils, small rolls of paper, notebooks, bookmarks and other accessories for reading and writing.

Uneducated person is a struggle even to expand or build such a structure. If a peer can still cope without assistance (and then, provided that you have at least seen how this is done), the multi-level support can be a real puzzle. Even the masters spend much time has put laukh on edge, then push and install parts of it in the desired position, and then turn and put on the table. Similarly, it folds back. Known Tashkent art Shahalami Shayakubov believes laukh (on - Arabic Ruhlen) as a support for the Koran appeared around the same time as the Qur'an itself. Compared with modern books, which you can easily hold and turn over during the long prayer, the ancient sacred tomes were much larger and much heavier, hundreds of pages of parchment, leather binding is often used for the strength of the reinforced metal plates. Stand is not just for convenience in reading the Quran, but also for the respect for the sacred and truly expensive book that could be carried, without touching it once again with his hands.