antique Uzbek Central Asian silk embroidery Lakai No:18/A

antik und Reich bestickte Lakai Stickereiaus Uzbekistan

Ein kleiner, dekorativer Wandschmuck eines Lakai-Stammes in uzbekistan oder Nordafghanistan mit Rotem Filzgrund, darauf ein in Seide gesticktes Muster aus fünf bunten Kreisen mit einem Sonnenstern im Zentrum. - Guter Zustand, mit dem originalen Besatz der Ränder aus Quasten in Seidengarn.

Breite ca.50 cm, ca. 50 cm lang

Eine bestickte Uzbekische Lakai gehört zu den begehrtesten Stücken einer Sammlung orientalische Textilien. Sie ist in einem Stück mit Seide auf Wollwollstoff handgearbeitet, Bei der Hochzeitzeremonie soll die Boktsche, wie beispielsweise die Einschlagtücher aus Zentralasien, zum Warmhalten der Brot, oder Korantasche benutzt, und später zur Aufbewahrung persönlicher Dinge der Frau gedient haben.

Ein wirklich bemerkenswertes antike Uzbekischen Textil von ungewöhnlichen Qualitäten.

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An exceptional example of an antique Uzbek Lakai Tribe silk embroidered dating to the last quarter of 19th century.

Width about 50 cm, about 50 cm long

The Uzbek-speaking Lakai are the only real nomads remaining in Central Asia.  Some Lakai, and their closely affiliated groups–the Kungrat and the Mangit–have settled into villages in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Afghanistan.

A thousand or so Lakai, however, still migrate with their herds of animals and complete households every summer from the hot plains of southern Tajikistan to summer pastures in the mountains of northern Tajikistan.  When winter approaches, the Lakai move again to the southern plains.

Their migration route takes them straight through the Tajikistan capital of Dushanbe, where police block off streets to allow huge herds of animals and numbers of nomad families to move through the city.  The Lakai have camels, horses, goats and sheep, but move their households of tents, clothes, furniture and cooking utensils by truck rather than on pack animals now.

The Lakai, at least since the Russian Revolution, have not woven carpets…probably because they have few sheep, preferring goats in modern times.  They have become–instead of rug weavers–accomplished embroidery makers, using several different embroidery stitches with bright primary colors of silk thread.

Lakai women decorate almost anything made of cloth in their households–horse covers, saddle covers, shawls, dresses, hats, wedding head-dresses, bedding covers, container bags, tent bands, and door frame surrounds.   They even keep mirrors in special embroidered mirror bags.

In the 19th century, the Lakai embroidered on homespun rough wool or cotton fabric dyed with madder root to various shades of red.  In the 20th century, the Lakai moved to using machine-made cotton fabric, still favoring  bright red as background to their embroideries.