1930' UZBEK-LAKAY SILK HAND EMBROIDERY SKULL-CAPS

  The intrensient interest in popular decorative and applied art of Uzbekistan, and its historical and cultural role are defined by fact that, just as in epos, music, poetry and dances, reflected are the inmost popular traits, its aesthetic stand, style, disposition and talent. The traditional principles of applied art of the Uzbeks and other peoples of Uzbekistan are based on ornamentalism, flatness, conditionality or portrayal which sometimes reaches the stage of sylization, and magnificent colouring. The colors are always pure and contrasting, without playing, but even the colors, which form the greatest contrast, match well. Popular traditions of art are extremely stable, and , although they change along which the living conditions of the people, they have not lost their national content. High skill in subordinating the composition of the pattern and its scale to the diverse forms of articles tells on designing the small original headdress - skull-caps. Skull-caps are an integral part of Uzbek national attire, and are a veritable work of national art. They are convenient to wear, practical and attractive. In the 19th and early 20th centuries local peculiarities of embroidery of skull-caps in different regions were so precise that they allowed to determine the birth-place of the owner.

Offered is old cone-shaped skullcapS. Circa 1930-40''. They are covered with hand embroidery with symbolically images of ram's heads with horns. The pattern ram's horns, in the embroidery, acted as a talisman according to mythological tradition. . The condition is very good.

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