ANTIQUE UZBEK SILK HANDMADE EMBR SUZANI - PALYAK # 572 WOW !!! Hundred years Masterpiece for the Collector ... Start Price USD 450.00 Current Price USD 450.00 Time Left 13 days 9 hours 42 minutes Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Wednesday, September 24, 2008 End Time Thursday, January 22, 2009 Location Bukhara See more about 'ANTIQUE UZBEK SILK HANDMADE EMBR SUZANI - PALYAK # 572' Description GRAND ANTIQUE UZBEK FULLY SILK HANDMADE EMBROIDERED SUZANI -PALYAK SUZANI -PALYAK Now you are bidding the long traditional Uzbek Suzani-Palyak. Suzani from the Uzbek language means “embroidered with a needle”.Hand-emroidery with silk threads on home-made cotton fabric. It is from Tashkent. Hand-embroidery of Tashkent and Ferghana Valley too differs by an amazing, hardly appreciable stitches and wonderful delicate restrained colours. You can see skilful alternation of gentle and bright colours: pink passes in red and in pink again; dark claret in dark green, yellow in pink and in white, etc. Fine designed thin black line gives clearity to the pattern and it demarcates separate subjects. THERE IS NO EMPTY CLOTH, THE ENTIRE CLOTH IS TAKEN UP WITH EMBROIDERY! IT NEEDED TREMENDOUS ENERGY AND A LONG TIME TO MAKE! Certainly, interest of Uzbek people to astronomy should be reflected in a national - applied art. The classical sample of this is Suzani-Palyak. Separate parts of the Embroidery are various astronomical subjects with the symbolical images of the sun, the moon, stars, planets and etc. The fine embroidery of Tashkent region has traditional motives the sun, the moon and the stars.These are bold designs, with an archaic symbolism centered on a circular motif, whose exact meaning is debated by specialists, it represent the sun, the moon, the heavens, a flower or an open pomegranate, a symbol of fertility. It is clearly a positive image of continuity and survival, and it appears over and over again in the life of the region.It often employs powerful contrasts, as if to distinguish dark and light, good and evil, life and death, and strong colors such as red for blood, dark green for the ground and white-black for the sky. This symbolism is most clear in the suzanis of the Tashkent and Ferghana Valley regions. They are hallmarked by a particular central roundel, known as the PALYAK, which is so distinctive that the word itself is used at Tashkent instead of suzani to refer to these embroideries. A PALYAK is a heavenly orb, and it can also appear as the OI-PALYAK, "moon-sky," occasionally with a star, and is often stylized to look like giant red flowers. This very fine Silk handmade embroidery - Bukhara Suzani is an excellent Decorative article for your interior. Want to know more about Uzbek Silk handmade embroideries - keep on Watching next items on my auction!!! The age of the item is beginning of the 20th century. SIZE: 110.5 X 95.5 Inches ( 276 x 239 cm ) Condition: GOOD (there are small apertures and Spots ) Want to know more about Uzbek Applied Arts and to get - Come in My Store "Antiquarian Textiles" !!! Payment I accept; PayPal , Money Orders , Cashiers check , Personal check .After auction's end I will send the instructions about payment to your email, registered on eBay. If you will not receive congratulation letter please contact me. Shipping: Handling and airmail anywhere in the world costs $40 . For north America and Europe, delivery will normally be within 10-15 works days of receipt of payment. (Delivery elsewhere may take a little longer.) PLEASE add to cost $9 state tax, which I ought to pay to the Ministry of culture . I'm PayPal Verified 572 Place a Bid!