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These colorful weavings from Bukhara are usually woven in long narrow strips that are then sewn together to form a larger piece. The irregularity is intensified by purposeful misalignment of the pattern repeats.

In nineteenth-century Bukhara such cloths were available commercially and used for a variety of purposes. Narrow strips were pieced together for the tailoring of garments, for wall curtains (pardeh) and as linings for the hangings and clothing.