Charming Uzbek Embroidered Woman Handbag "SUZANI"

Our eBay store DESERT-of-SUZANI would like to present to you the piece of fine hand embroidery. Boundless love for the nature finds its reflection in embroidery pieces of Bukhara's masters. Their patterns have absorbed symbols and forms going from different epochs. The Bukhara's suzani of the 19th and 20th centurys are rich in flower and vegetative motives, which transmit absolute beauty of the nature - these are pictures of trees, flowering bushes, various flowers: carnations, tulips, peonies, chrysanthemums and others. Their compositions symbolize the blossom of the nature and life on the earth. From old times, flowers as symbols of love and faithfulness so close to spiritual world of women were symbols of procreation as well as fruits - a symbol of fertility. In embroidery pieces of the first half of the 19th century, plants and flowers are a little stylized. In the second half of the 19th - early 20th cc. the style changed, it became more realistic and recognizable. Patterns on suzani often reflect heart feelings of women, their vision of the nature. They created pictures of animals, birds and fish alongside with vegetal motives. Embroiderers perfectly added their pictures in a general composition of suzani. At the first look, it was impossible to notice them within a plenty of flower patterns. It seems that they especially hid them (animals, birds and fish) among vegetative patterns. Just attentively looking for details it is possible to find them. Acquaintance with suzani of the Bukhara school gives obvious evidence for that Bukhara's embroiderers achieved a high level in the art of reproduction of the world and its philosophically deep sense by means of symbolically solved images taken from the nature around.