Accessories
Əsgər
₺2,500 · ≈ €45
Accessories
Əsgər
₺2,500 · ≈ €45
Charged in Turkish Lira (₺). € shown is indicative.
Hand-embroidered bead by bead — glass seed beads, pearls and crystals worked onto felt, finished with a pin.
A toy soldier in red and gold, standing to attention on the lapel.
Embroidered by hand — no two come out quite alike
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A toy soldier of the sort that comes out of a box once a year and is taken very seriously by whoever unpacks it. Red and gold cap, white braid across the chest, navy legs, and a rifle at the shoulder drawn in a single line of gold beads.
Hand-embroidered bead by bead — glass seed beads, pearls and crystals worked onto felt, finished with a pin. Handle by the edges. Keep away from perfume and water, and store flat somewhere dry.
The Maker · Şəki, Azerbaijan
Embroidered by hand in Azerbaijan, one bead at a time, on the same bench as the silk.
The Story of Şəki Silk →How it was made
This is embroidery, not dyeing. Glass seed beads, pearls and crystals are worked onto felt one at a time and the piece is finished with a pin on the back. Nothing about it is stamped, printed or cast; the only tool is a needle, and the only way to go faster is to use fewer beads.
Because a piece is built up in a single sitting, the beads never fall in quite the same order twice. Two brooches of the same design will differ in the way a line of stitching differs from another line of stitching — slightly, and everywhere.
Where the figure comes from
The brooches are named the way the scarves are: an Azerbaijani name, left untranslated in every language, taken from what the piece depicts. Where the figure carries a story of its own — Qobustan’s rock carvings, Tıq-Tıq Xanım from the children’s tale, the pomegranate that stands for fertility and for the turn of the year — the name is that story’s name.
The motifs themselves come from the same vocabulary the silk is named from. The pomegranate, the leaf, the flower heads and the birds all appear on kelaghayi stamps, cut in pear wood or walnut; here they are set in glass instead of printed in wax. It is the same picture, made by a different hand at a different bench.
Living with it
Beadwork on felt does not want water. Keep it dry, keep perfume and hairspray off it, and pin it through a layer that can take a pin rather than through fine knit or silk. Stored flat in a box it will outlast the coat you bought it for.
These are made in the same small numbers as everything else here. When one is gone it is gone; there is no second run of a piece that was embroidered by hand in an afternoon.
Əsgər
₺2,500