Textiles

Modern reproduction Uzbek Suzani, the occasional antique piece bought as part of Rachels’s private collection for pure beauty and decoration. The frame or mounting on a stretcher of a fragment and a moment in time is captured to be enjoyed forever more.

The Afghan dress panels show a way of life where the work and embroidery as shown in the collar and front dress panels, would then be cut and removed sometime sewn onto the next dress as the child grew.