Samarkand Suzane
Samarkand came into history of world culture as a capital of Amir Temur's empire. The city was surviving difficulties after disintegration of the empire, but could keep a status of the largest center of culture and art crafts. The original Samarkand embroidery excites especial interest. Despite the close neighbourhood of the large centers of embroidery - Bukhara, Nurata and Shahrisabz, which gravitate to general Bukhara school, the Samarkand school has preserved own style, captivating by monumental solutions, laconic colour and dynamic forms.
It is interesting, that the study of Uzbekistan embroidery began from Samarkand. In the 1930s, O. Sukhareva, the senior researcher of the State Museum of History (Samarkand) collected the richest material on the Samarkand embroidery. Now, the manuscript is kept at the library of the State Museum of Arts (Tashkent) (1). Some her articles were based on this material and published (2, 3). Later, the Samarkand embroidery was not a subject of special studying, however the works, devoted to...