GOLD EMBROIDERY OF BUKHARA

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GOLD EMBROIDERY OF BUKHARA
Корёгдиев Зуфар Охунжонович – ассистент кафедры гуманитарных дисциплин, Бухарский филиал Ташкентского института ирригации и мелиорации. Узбекистан.
Z. O. Qoryogdiyev
Annotation
This memoir about the splendid form of ancient decorative art of the gifted Uzbek gold embroiderers.
Keywords: Gold embroidery, masters, art, decorative weaving, creative team-work, museums, artistic value.
Bukhara gold embroidery is a miracle of art which holds a particular place among the numerous forms of art in Uzbekistan: delicate carving and painting on ganch and wood, tile-facing of monumental edifices, skillfully-worked metal and leather, carpets and decorative fabrics, and ceramics of consummate mastery.
From time immemorial things that make life more beautiful have brought joy to people. The aesthetic value of embroidery in gold has always been greater than the age-long and pitiful value of the materials used, although it is primarily their prise that converts the articles into a national treasure. The skill of the master who created things of aesthetic and material value is retained in them forever. That is why the significance of perfectly made articles of this kind is intransient.
Gold embroidery in Bukhara has a style of its own, and its best specimens came into being where the great masters found patterns which were logic in composition, figurative in needlework and masterly performed.
Works of art of this kind stand out and create a school of popular applied arta school which all creators of things of beauty have striven to compete whith and which should be an example for them in future.
Despite the antiquity of gold embroidery in Bukhara, nearly all the specimens found are believed to date f