Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Rhombuses in wool

The most common Baluchi motifs include rhombuses. This has been embroidered in thin dyed wool by Rukhsana who lives in a small quarter on Urak Road, Quetta. She is a Punjabi woman from Sargodha but has been living in Quetta for the past 16 years. Her embroidering speed is lightning fast and not as neat as other women's but one can hardly hold that against her. Neither of her two daughters embroider, both attend school. She embroidered 15 such flowers in the course of two afternoons.

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