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Textile1046/4

Rectangular, multi-coloured silk ikat bed cover or wall hanging, backed with machine printed, floral cotton textile. On the ikat side are 25 narrow vertical stripes of seven-colour warp-face ikat designs, separated by narrower, unpatterned green, yellow, or red-purple stripes. The weft is bright pink, giving the piece an over-all rosy appearance. The machine printed cotton backing textile is predominantly red, with brown, tan and white details, and the piece is bound on all four edges with bias cut green silk textile. Several lengths of ikat textile were pieced together to achieve the desired width.

Culture
Uzbek
Material
cotton fibre, silk fibre and dye
Made in
Uzbekistan ? or Afghanistan ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile1046/3

Rectangular, multi-coloured silk ikat bed cover or wall hanging, backed with red, white and gray-blue machine printed cotton textile. The patterns on the ikat side are large and boldly colourful and are composed of six-colour warp-face ikat designs on three narrow vertical panels that have been stitched together to achieve the desired width. The silk weft is bright pink, giving the piece an overall rosy appearance. The cotton backing textile is loosely attached to the ikat silk with running stitches made with red thread. All edges are bound with green silk bias binding.

Culture
Uzbek
Material
cotton fibre, silk fibre and dye
Made in
Uzbekistan ? or Afghanistan ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile1045/1

Rectangular suzani textile with dense appliqué designs on cream ground. In the centre are round red flowers and multicoloured floral motifs. Around the flowers are green vines arranged in a diamond pattern. There is a border around the edges with large round red flowers and circular green vines. The back lining is blue with a diagonal line pattern in white and dark blue. There is a strip of fabric with tabs for hanging sewn to the top edge.

Culture
Uzbek ?
Material
cotton fibre, dye and silk fibre
Made in
Bukhara, Uzbekistan ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile1046/2

Rectangular, multi-coloured silk ikat bed cover or wall hanging, constructed of three lengths of bright pink, white, blue-green and yellow warp-face ikat silk satin textile, seamed together vertically, and loosely quilted onto a backing of machine-printed cotton textile. The backing textile is pieced from two floral prints, one with orange and brown predominating, the other with red, yellow and brown predominating. The object is bound on all four edges with bright yellow-green silk dupioni textile, which forms a narrow edging on the front and a wider border on the back. Possibly used as a bed cover for a bride and groom.

Culture
Uzbek
Material
silk fibre, cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Uzbekistan ? or Afghanistan ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bag916/2

Flat, rectangular, decorative bag, made from two different types of textile. The front of the bag is made from very finely embroidered, multi-coloured textile with patterns that resemble an ikat weaving. The back of the bag is made from a cotton warp face ikat textile with large red and yellow patterning on an off-white background. All four edges of the front of the bag are finished with narrow multi-coloured tablet-woven braids. The sides and bottom edge of the bag are trimmed with dense, long (11 cm), multi-coloured, twisted fringe (red, dark yellow, purple, off-white, brown, green and blue). The opening of the bag is trimmed with four multi-coloured tassels. The front of the bag is lined with a loosely woven, printed, tan cotton textile.

Culture
Turkmen ? or Uzbek ?
Material
silk fibre ?, cotton fibre, dye and rayon fibre ?
Made in
Afghanistan ? or Uzbekistan ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile3612/8

Rectangular textile with dense embroidered floral designs on a beige background. The textile is composed of three lengths of beige fabric stitched together along the long edges. In the centre are three large red and brown-red flowers surrounded by smaller red flowers. The centre section and outer section are separated by a rectangular border of small red flowers with green stems. The outer section has more large red and brown-red flowers, that wrap around the centre rectangle. This section is also bordered by small flowers, but in a dark brown-red colour with green stems. The back lining is composed of sections of floral fabric stitched together. The textile is edged with a beige fabric with geometric designs in dark blue, red and light brown, folded over the edge and sewn with both a running stitch and whip stitch in yellow or orange thread.

Culture
Uzbek ?
Material
cotton fibre and silk fibre
Made in
Bukhara, Uzbekistan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Camel Cover3377/16 a-b

Camel cover. Large textile meant to drape over an animal's body. The frame is somewhat I-shaped with a solid rectangular body and two cross-sections of fabric that would drape near the animal’s limbs. Attached at one end is a head cover with triangular eye flaps and strips of fabric that would drape over the muzzle. On both sides, between the hanging strips and attached to the triangles along the main body, are four rows by eight columns of small fabric squares attached on corners to either the next square or main fabric. This is repeated with smaller squares of fabric hanging from the head cover. The squares have solid silks in olive green or deep purple, and Ikat pattern. Three attached squares (part b) have detached from the cover. The shoulder fabric and head cover have fringe or fabric tassels. The fabric face is deep pink-purples and greens, and is backed with reds and black.

Culture
Uzbek
Material
cotton fibre and silk fibre
Made in
Uzbekistan ? or Afghanistan ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile3357/2

Rectangular suzani textile composed of three long pieces of beige cotton fabric stitched together on the long edges. Textile is embroidered with silk thread. At centre is a large eight-point star with floral designs within and around the star. There are two small bands of repeating red flowers on a light grey-green vine within a red chain-stitched border. Between the two outer bands are large circular flowers, separated by a diagonal blue vine(?) with alternating yellow and red strip down the centre and small flower flanking each side.

Culture
Uzbek ?
Material
cotton fibre and silk fibre
Made in
Uzbekistan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile3357/1

Rectangular suzani textile composed of four long pieces of beige cotton fabric stitched together on the long edges. Textile is embroidered with floral designs in silk thread. There are two small bands of repeating red flowers with dark green leaves and stem within a dark red chain-stitched border. Between the two outer bands are large circular flowers, separated by a diagonal leaf(?) in green with red outline. Some embroidered designs have been repaired with bright red or bright pink thread - fixing chain stitching or other stitches.

Culture
Uzbek ?
Material
silk fibre and cotton fibre
Made in
Uzbekistan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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