Original artefacts of Silk Road epoch presented in Astana (PHOTOS)

The Russian Museum of Ethnography sends in exhibition “Textiles of Central Asia and Caucasus-heritage of the Great Silk Road” to the opening of the National Museum of Kazakhstan.

It reflects the interpenetration, mutual cultures and traditions of different peoples who lived on the territory of Central Asia, Kazakhstan, and the Caucasus. The exhibition is part of the collection of the general exposition of the Russian Ethnographic Museum in St. Petersburg," representative of the National Museum of Kazakhstan Batesh Akpassova said.

Exhibition “Textiles of Central Asia and Caucasus-heritage of the Great Silk Road representing ethnographic monuments from the collection of the Russian Museum of Ethnography is devoted to important sphere of the traditional culture as textile crafts.

The Great Silk Road is the system of caravan trade road, which connected the East Asia and Western Europe, happened two thousand years ago, at the turn of the old and the new eras.

Trade on the Silk Road was a significant factor in the development of the civilizations of China, the Indian subcontinent, Persia, Europe and Arabia, opening long-distance, political and economic interactions between the civilizations.

Exhibition includes over 400 items (tools and machines, costume complexes, interior items, samples of fabrics, carpets and embroidery, attributes of wedding ritual and others), which characterize the place of textiles in the traditional culture of the peoples of Central Asia and Caucasus and aspects of its existence.

Kamila Amirova 

Photos by Azamat Aliyev