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Suzani embroidery, meaning "of needles" in Persian, is an Uzbek textile art that transforms bridal items into storytelling canvases. Women stitch pomegranates and celestial motifs with silk thread.
Suzani scarf: traditional hand-embroidery of Uzbekistan. /VCG
Nanjing Yunjin, known as China's "cloud brocade," dazzled emperors with its gold-wrapped silk threads. Woven on 5.6-meter-long looms requiring two artisans – one to weave and one to program patterns – it remains the pinnacle of luxury, inscribed by UNESCO in 2009.
Nanjing Yunjin. /VCG
Both the traditions show that textiles are civilization's first language.
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