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Part II. A suzani (from suzan, the Persian word for “needle”) is a type of embroidered dowry textile made in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and other Central Asian countries. For centuries, nomadic women from these regions used lush silk threads to embroider these dowry pieces on a cotton base. The oldest surviving suzanis are from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, but it seems likely that they were being made long before that. In the early 15th century, Ruy Gonzáles de Clavijo, a Castilian ambassador to the court of Timur (Tamerlane), left detailed descriptions of embroideries that were probably forerunners of the suzani.

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