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- Title
Nomad Textile Bags from Central Asia in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Geographic Distribution, Decoration, Semantics.
- Authors
Bogoslovskaya, Irina
- Abstract
The nomadic lifestyle required sets of bags to transport both valuables and everyday objects. Those produced by Central Asia's nomads were not only functional items but works of art whose decoration and semantics reflected the worldview of the people who made them. Evidence of their usage can be traced from the early medieval period to Soviet times. This article explores in some detail traditional materials and embroidery techniques used ir their production. The characteristic compositions and multiple symbols of different nomadic g'oups are demonstrated and discussed, with in-depth analysis of the Karakalpak shay qalta (bag for tea) as an example. As nomads came increasingly under the influence of sedentary culture and were eventually settled themselves, both their use of storage bags and the decorations applied to them changed. These changes are especially reflected in the shift from "cosmological'' to "vegetal" motifs. By the first quarter of the twentieth century, conditions of Soviet town and farm life gradually spelled an end to the tradition of nomad textile bags.
- Subjects
ASIA; TEXTILE bags; EMBROIDERY patterns; NOMADIC embroidery; NOMADS; LIFESTYLES
- Publication
Textile Museum Journal, 2017, Vol 44, p31
- ISSN
0083-7407
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7560/TMJ4406