Beautiful Vintage Hand Embroidered Cotton Suzani handwritten story it and the rectangular one

it and the rectangular one (a shoeshine brush

9ʺ w × 3ʺd × 9ʺh

certain objects just have a special weight that you can immediately feel in your gut

What I find especially intruiging about it are the cartoonish pyrograph designs

10 3/4" long by 2 5/8" wide by 1" tall

Beautiful Vintage Hand Embroidered Cotton Suzani handwritten story it and the rectangular oneThere are so many gorgeous textiles out there from so many places; I am doing my best to learn about things as I find them, but am far from an expert! This beautiful piece, featuring extensive hand embroidery on cotton and a quilted border, I believe is a Suzani, a form traditional to Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and other Central Asian countries ("Suzani" comes from the Persian "Suzan", meaning needle.) With mirrors at the center of the central