rom XIX and early XX centuries. No earlier articles have been found to date. There are no more than about one thousand specimens of Bukhara gold embroidery in Uzbekistan museums, while the number of oriental robes of the XIX and early XX centuries which are of particular artistic value, does not exceed 300.
All these collections are of great artistic value. The finest works of this rare form of decorative-applied art are the outcome of laborious work, gift and taste for art on the part of many generations of gold-embroiderers.
Historical literature and finds of archeologists testify to the fact that embroidery in gold was known to the inhabitants of rural areas of Central Asia in ancient times. The old masters still remind us of a legend which has it that gold embroidery was known before silk: first it was done on leather, karbos and wool, later – on silk and velvet.
Sources, elucidating the conquest of Sogd by Arabs, note the abundance of gold embroidery on the garments of the war elite in Sogd as for back as the VIII century. In the X-XVI centuries numerous historical data such as written sourses and miniatures testify to the great progress reached in decorative weaving and gold embroidery in Samarkand, Bukhara and Heart. By the XVII century gold embroidery was done on an organized basis. The historian Melikho imparted that there was a whole block of houses with gold embroiderer in Samarkand.
In later times this form of art in Uzbekistan was continuously connected whith Bukhara which became the capital of the Sheibanids as far back as XVI century.
Bukhara was inhabited by splendid popular masters of ganch-carving and metal-chasing, famous jewelers, ceramists, book-binders and illustrators. The hand-made works of art, created by the artisans, w
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