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MATERIALS: Cotton cloth, cotton & silk. CONSTRUCTION: Handst., embr:surface satin, cretan, interlaced, Romanian, couched, cross, rope stitches. MOTIFS: Mod, jhad, mor, laher, chaki. STYLE REMARKS: Suf. CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE: Wrapped around turban and chin of groom as he gives in wedding procession. Given by the brides family. CULTURAL REMARKS: Pattern of mod-tree-mor is traditional to bukani, used by many communities from Sindh. The name is derived from bo=two, kan=ears. Bukani, Man's ceremonial Scarf.
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Last modified on: February 22, 2013