Sumptuous hand-embroidered Suzani in the Lakai style

This lively suzani is hand-embroidered in the Lakai style using the yurma technique (a type of chain stitch using a tambour hook). The background fabric is a silk-cotton adras and the bold cosmological, geometric and zoomorphic motifs stitched in bright reds, greens, blues and yellows are typical of nomadic culture.