Suzani Embroideries

Besch, F.
1981 Susani: Stickereien aus Mittelasien, Franz Bausback Teppichantiquitaeten, Mannheim.

Black, David and C. Loveless
1981 Embroidered Flowers from Thrace to Tartary, David Black Oriental Carpets, London.

Cadoux, A.M.
1990 Asian Domestic Embroideries. The Burrell Collection, Arts of Asia, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 138-145.

Cootner, Cathryn M.
1986 Gardens of Paradise, Hali, issue 30, vol. 8, no.2, April\May\June, pp. 46-49.

Franses, Michael and Robert Pinner
1978 Large Medallion Suzani from Southwest Uzbekistan, Hali, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 128-133.

Sukhareva, O.A.
1983-84The Design of Decorative Embroidery of Samarkand and its Connection with Ethnic Ideas and Beliefs, Soviet Anthropology and Archaeology, (trans. from Russian), winter, pp. 20-42.

Taube, Jakob
1994 Vok Collection: Suzani: A Textile Art from Central Asia, (trans. from German), Herold Verlagsauslieferung, Munich.

Tsareva, Elena
1994 Suzanis of Central Asia, Eothen: Jahreshefte der Gesellschaft der Freunde Islamischer Kunst und Kultur, (trans. from Russian), 2./3. Jahrgang, 1991/92, Editio Maris, Munich, pp. 63-80.

Tschepelewezkaja, G.L. and O.A. Sucharewa
1991 Susani Uzbekistana, Susani Usbekistans: Ein Beitrag zur Technik, Ornamentik and Symbolik der Usbekischen Seidenstickerei, (trans. from Russian), Taschkent, 1961, Reinhold Schletzer Verlag, Hamburg.

Yanai, Yigal
1986 Suzani: Central Asian Embroideries, Haaretz Museum, Tel Aviv.

Textile Arts of Central Asia

Harvey, Janet
1996 Traditional Textiles of Central Asia, Thames and Hudson, New York.

Lindahl, David
1975 Uzbek: The Textiles and Life of the Nomadic and Sedentary Uzbek Tribes of Central Asia, (trans. from German), Zbinden Druck und Verlag, Basel.

Kalter, Johannes
1984 The Arts and Crafts of Turkestan, (trans. from German), Thames and Hudson, New York.

Kalter, Johannes, and Margareta Pavaloi (eds.)
1995 Erben der Seidenstrasse: Usbekistan, Linden Museum, Berlin, Museum für Völkerkunde, Stuttgart.

1997 Heirs to the Silk Road:Uzbekistan. Linden Museum, Berlin, Museum für Völkerkunde, Stuttgart, Thames and Hudson, New York, London.

Historical Context

Bacon, Elizabeth E.
1980 Central Asians Under Russian Rule: A Study in Culture Change, Cornell University Press, New York.

Becker, Seymour
1968 Russia's Protectorates in Central Asia: Bukhara and Khiva, 1865-1924, Harvard University Press, Cambridge.

Naumkin, Vitaly (ed.)
1993 Caught in Time: Great Photographic Archives: Bukhara, Garnet, Reading, UK.

Poliakov, Sergei P.
1992 Everday Islam: Religion and Tradition in Rural Central Asia, (trans. from Russian?), M.E. Sharpe, New York and London.

Schuyler, Eugene
1966 Notes on a Journey into Russian Turkestan, Kokand, Bukhara, and Kuldja, London, 1876, Geoffrey Wheeler (ed.), Praeger, New York.

Schoeberlein-Engel, John S.
1995 Guide to Scholars of the History and Culture of Central Asia, Harvard Central Asia Forum, Cambridge.

Skallerup, Thomas Mark
1990 Artisans Between Guilds and Cooperatives: A History of Social and Economic Change in Russian Turkestan and Soviet Central Asia. PhD. dissertation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor:.

Vambery, Arminius
1970 Travels in Central Asia, 1864, Praeger, New York.

Other Recommended Readings

Doubleday, Veronica
1990 Three Women of Herat, University of Texas Press, Austin.

Hopkirk, Peter
1992 The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia, Kodansha, New York.

Compiled for the exhibition Suzani: Embroideries from the Oases of Central Asia, May 1996
by Lorna Carmel