Woman Holding Patchwork Pillow | World Quilts: The Central Asian Story

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Women holding patchwork mattress
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Tajik woman with patchwork pillow
Photographer: Z.A. Shirokova
1957
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Women with patchwork mattress

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Women often decorated pillow ends with kurak (patchwork), as this was the side that would be visible when the pillows were stacked and stored on top of trunks during the day.

Tajik woman with patchwork pillow

Photographer: Z.A. Shirokova

1957

Garm, Bedak Village

Tajikistan

Photo credit: Donish Institute of History, Archaeology, and Ethnography, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan