TRADITIONAL BOYSUN HANDMADE EMBROIDERY "GIRLS AND DEER"

TRADITIONAL BOYSUN HANDMADE EMBROIDERY "GIRLS AND DEER"

There are a lot of people who enjoy decorating with beautiful and original pieces of art. Some may think that they spent a fortune on it. If you are a collector or a dealer of art this is an excellent opportunity to purchase for your own investment. Women have been doing embroidery work for thousands of years, in fact in very early England and then America too, a young respectable girl was started at a very early age to learn how to embroidery and that would be one of her "good qualities" when it came time to marry her off. It was unheard of for a woman back in those times not to know how to do needlepoint. The Portuguese, Dutch and English have been known for their beautiful designs of embroidery. Our eBay store DESERT-of-SUZANI would like to present to you the piece of fine hand embroideries -BOYSUN SUZANI "GIRLS WITH DEERS".The embroidery decorated many subjects - from sacral pray carpets - djoinamaz, various towels and male belt shawls up to small housewares - tea pouches (choi - halta) and others. All subjects had own ornamental motif. In Boysun ornamental embroidery, like in the other regions of Uzbekistan, dominate floral and geometric patterns with rare pieces of stylized pictures of birds and animals. Innovations hardly penetrated into Boysun and for many centuries have been filtered through folk intuition and taste. Therefore, the finding of big suzaneh with pictures of black - haired and white - faced beauties embracing the gracious deer is a unique fact, still not mentioned in scientific publications. Meanwhile, this subject has been used already for 50 years. In words of the local expert in folk art, H. Hursandov, this subject came to Boysun in the 1950s, when arrived two families from Ossetia. At their houses were carpets with this subject. Deer and ladies lying on velvet wall carpets and moneyboxes in a form of cats, which were wide - spread in the 1950s among the people just recovered after the war troubles, became a symbol of reviving life. Soon, the critics labeled it as a lowbrow taste and cheap kitsch. Today these imitations get the same evaluation. However, the subject "Boysun deer" became an inherent part of the regional folk culture and original symbol of its art lexis. Its prevalence could be explained partly by popularity of the image of the deer - kiyik in local mentality. This animal - a symbol of beauty and grace, probably, played protective role - its pictures are often seen in ornaments on the tin chests, widely used by the Boysun people.