two antique fabric flowers, Turkestan, around 1910, glass bead embroidery with gold- and silver metal threats, cowrie shells as fertility symbol, they count as amulets against the Evil Eye, also as symbols for luckand has been worn by the Turkmen already in historical periods, D. approx. 14/12cm, see ref.: J. Harvey, Traditional textiles of Central Asia, London, 1996, page 40

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