{"id":1286,"date":"2010-06-29T06:36:23","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T20:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2012-01-06T13:32:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T02:32:25","slug":"afghan-embroidery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2010\/06\/29\/afghan-embroidery\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan embroidery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some friends have recently come back from a trip to Afghanistan &#8211; as you do! Knowing of my interest in embroidery, they brought back some Afghani embroidered bookmarks for me to see.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/afghan-bookmarks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/afghan-bookmarks.jpg\" alt=\"afghan embroidered bookmarks\" title=\"afghan-bookmarks\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1287\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/afghan-bookmarks.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/afghan-bookmarks-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/cream-afghan-bookmark.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/cream-afghan-bookmark.jpg\" alt=\"cream afghan embroidered bookmark\" title=\"cream-afghan-bookmark\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1288\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/cream-afghan-bookmark.jpg 200w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/cream-afghan-bookmark-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/green-afghan-bookmark.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/green-afghan-bookmark.jpg\" alt=\"green afghan embroidered bookmark\" title=\"green-afghan-bookmark\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1289\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/green-afghan-bookmark.jpg 200w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/green-afghan-bookmark-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>They are incredibly finely worked, with everything in counted satin stitch, worked by hand. The stitches are <strong>miniature<\/strong>! They appear to be worked on a slightly synthetic fabric, with a slightly synthetic thread for the embroidery. It has a lot of sheen, but doesn&#8217;t appear to be silk. The designs are gorgeous geometric designs.<\/p>\n<p>I asked my friends if the embroidery was in a traditional style, and they didn&#8217;t know. (They didn&#8217;t ask enough questions!) But seeing some of their photos of shops selling textiles, there appeared to be a bit in similar styles, so it possibly is a traditional style. But from what area or tribal group or tradition, I do not know.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, one of the bookmarks has a cross on it. I asked why this would be, coming from a Muslim country. They said that basically all Westerners are seen as being Christian, so it was done for the tourist market. I can&#8217;t imagine they get many actual tourists there, but I suppose there are a lot of NGOs and military people passing through.<\/p>\n<p>The bookmarks were a wonderful treat for me to see!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some friends have recently come back from a trip to Afghanistan &#8211; as you do! Knowing of my interest in embroidery, they brought back some Afghani embroidered bookmarks for me to see. They are incredibly finely worked, with everything in counted satin stitch, worked by hand. The stitches are miniature! They appear to be worked [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embroidery-stitches","category-travel","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4275,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions\/4275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}