Many of the Lakai embroidered textiles, as for instance the door hangings, were used to ornament the interiors of their yurts, the circular dwellings of so many Central Asian groups.
Sources: PAIVA, Roland, and Bernard DUPAIGNE (1993). Afghan Embroidery, Lahore/Rawalpindi/Karachi: Ferozsons, and Gillian VOGELSANG and Willem VOGELSANG, Encyclopedia of Embroidery from Central Asia, the Iranian Plateau and the Indian Subcontinent (London: Bloomsbury Publishing 2021), p. 221.
Digital source of illustration (retrieved 7 June 2016).
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