A small embroidery workshop producing suzani textiles and wrapped goods, drawing on a regional needlework tradition passed through three generations of makers.
Studio Zarafshan opened in 2015 as a two-person workshop and has grown to a team of six embroiderers working in rotation, each specializing in a different stitch tradition.
The studio's suzani work follows a regional pattern language built from repeated botanical motifs — pomegranate blossoms, vine work, sun discs — stitched in silk thread on hand-loomed cotton.
Commissions typically take four to six weeks depending on piece size; large wall hangings can take longer, since a single suzani panel may pass through three or four hands before it's finished.
The studio sources its cotton base cloth from a weaving cooperative in the same region and dyes its own silk thread in small batches, which is part of why no two pieces come out quite the same color.
