Vok Collection: SUZANI 2

A Textile Art from Central Asia

text by Ignazio Vok and Jakob Taube

Second part of the collection

"SUZANI covered the bed shared by the bride and the groom. The happiest moments in the young couple's lives, all their hopes and their delight, were stitched into the embroideries by women. SUZANI are the most cheerful textiles of all. The imaginative world of flowers, leaves and fruits, fills my heart again and again with joy. And this joy I want to pass on to others." Ignazio Vok ________________________________________

The richly illustrated catalogue of the second part of a superlative private collection of suzanis, assembled over a period of twelve years. Introductions and captions by Ignazio Vok and Jakob Taube. The text is completed by a number of short essays by Jakob Taube, a bibliography on suzanis and a glossary explaining the local terminology.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS Ignazio Vok was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 1938. He studied architecture in Munich and Venice, and lives with his family in Italy and Austria. He has been interested in traditional and modern art since his days studying architecture at university, later especially in the cultures of the Far East and the Islamic world. In the late 1960s he purchased several Indonesian textiles and started to collect Anatolian and Persian flatweaves. He also began to take an interest in European modern applied art and in primitive African sculpture. In the early 1970s he obtained his first examples of suzani embroidery and founded this collection. Jakob Taube studied the Uzbek and Persian languages and oriental archaeology in East Berlin, Halle and Tashkent, and then studied Uzbek culture, especially folk literature and embroidery. He visited Uzbekistan and Tajikistan again in 1987, 1989 and 1994, and in 1990 completed a PhD on the ornamentation of suzani embroideries.

Published: Ignazio Vok, Munich, 2006 - 96 pages, hardbound in cloth - 310 x 300 mm - 31 suzanis illustrated in full colour plates, with details - Text by Ignazio Vok, the collector, and Jakob Taube, expert on Central Asian culture - Outstanding high-quality reproductions ISBN: 3-923185-19-7 (English) PRICE (excluding postage and packing - see order form): UKPound 45.00. Available direct from: Textile & Art Publications Ltd Studio 28 Liddell Road, London NW6 2EW, England TEL (44-20) 7328 4844 or (44-1749) 850 856 FAX (44-20) 7624 1732 Please click here to access an Order Form, to print out and send or fax to us. All major credit cards accepted

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