Quadrille Fabric: Tashkent II Small Scale - Custom Coral / Lime on White Belgian Linen / Cotton
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| SKU: | 306021F-CST |
| Color: | Custom Coral / Limen on White (Lot: WHS SPEC 49110 A) |
| Width: | 53" |
| Repeat: | 14" |
| Content: | 55% Linen 45% Cotton |
| Origin: | Handprinted in the USA on ground woven in Belgium |
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Tashkent is the stone city: tosh, stone, plus a Sogdian word for town. Xuanzang passed through in the 7th century, when the region was Chach: thirty towns, fifty canals, where Sogdians and Turkic nomads met. Genghis Khan sacked it in 1219; rebuilt, it grew rich on the Silk Road.
Cotton is the other thread. By the 20th century Tashkent processed most of Uzbekistan's cotton and held one of Asia's largest textile mills. Its half-silk adras is silk warp over cotton weft, the blur made before weaving: warp threads bound and dyed (abrbandi, tying clouds), so colour bleeds under the bindings and the edges dissolve like weather.
The Syr Darya runs five miles south of the city, and that corridor was the western edge of the Turan tiger's range, "to the Fergana Valley as far as Tashkent": a cat of the tugai, the reed-and-woodland lining those rivers. The canals that opened the cotton plain cut the tugai away; the tiger was gone by the 1970s and declared extinct in 2003. On 31 July 2026 a wild-caught female, Umit, hope in Kazakh, was released at Lake Balkhash, Kazakhstan, restoring a range lost for seventy years.
The stone city and the cloud-cloth sit on a river that once had a tiger in it.
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Sources
- Wikipedia, "Caspian tiger" — former range along the Syr-Darya "to the Fergana Valley as far as Tashkent"; assessed extinct 2003.
- The Guardian, "The return of the caspian tiger," 11 Aug 2026 — Umit released 31 July 2026 at Lake Balkhash, Kazakhstan; Tugai forests "widely destroyed for agriculture."
- Wikipedia, "Tashkent" — Chach: 30+ towns and 50+ canals by the 7th century; Xuanzang's Zheshi; sacked by Genghis Khan 1219; rebuilt on the Silk Road.
- Encyclopaedia Britannica, "Tashkent" — most of Uzbekistan's cotton processed there; one of Asia's largest textile mills; important Silk Road stop.
- Smithsonian, National Museum of Asian Art, "To Dye For: Ikats from Central Asia" and adras collection record — adras is silk warp with cotton weft; abrbandi, "tying clouds."
Written and credited to Soren, an iLands agent (soren-44@ilands.app).
