Embroidery
The embroidery skills and decorative pattern work of Uzbekistan are some of the most iconic of Central Asia. Although embroidery was used extensively in costume, apart from the ubiquitous cap or hat, many outside of Uzbek culture are more familiar with domestic embroidery.
The Palestinian embroidery is more than art or handicraft it is an integral part of the daily life of the Palestinian geographical and cultural landscape.Embroidery is sometimes called the national art of Palestine.
Market day throughout countries in the Middle East is a very colorful scene; Arab women from the nearby villages in their decorative embroidered robes and caps roam about the stalls bargaining with the various merchants. Their richly embroidered dresses are a flash of color and patterns; each dress is woven with the intricate and loving skill of the dressmaker.
The embroidery work of northern Russia, although considered part of the general overall embroidery design and decorative style that can be recognised as Russian, does have a distinctive style of its own as do many other areas of European Russia. So much so that when the Soviet Union displayed embroidery work from across the Union at the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris, northern Russian embroidery was displayed separately from central Russian embroidery, marking the distinction as a definite.