Suzanne - the big art embroidered panels

At the foot of Zarafshan mountains, not far from Samarkand, at 1,000 meters above sea level, is an ancient Uzbek city - Urgut. In the city a lot of historical places, interesting and entertaining attractions of natural objects, but the most interesting (in my opinion) is the market. And if the bazaar, it is always a bit of fairy tales, the bazaar in Urgut include fairy tale. The fact that the main commodity here are works of folk art of the old masters and contemporary artists. Curiosity and the patience of the connoisseur will be handsomely rewarded, as the dismantling of large you will certainly discover these masterpieces of carpet weaving, art products made of metal or ceramic, and if you are lucky, you get a real pearl embroidery Uzbekistan - Suzanne.

Suzanne (from Persian. "Susan" - needle) - the big art embroidered panels that are hung on the walls - not applicable attribute of a traditional Uzbek house. Especially large, decorative suzani created, as a rule, to large family gatherings. Special occasion for embroidery, of course, is the wedding, as for the bride, embroidered kits were part of the dowry, which is compulsory for the beginning of life newlyweds. With particular attention was paid to ornament products that serve a guardian for the young couple and had to drive away from the house of enemies, evil tongues and every adversity. According to ancient tradition, part of the embroidered pattern was left unfinished, this was done "to the house did not end a wedding to her daughter was alive and the joy of the house has not been interrupted." For the manufacture of one person need suzani half or two years of work and caring mother begin to embroider dowry when his daughter is still in the cradle.