The article dwells on the colour range of abra fabrics. The author points that traditional masters, makers of abra fabrics, used not only certain compositions and patterns for a mostly complete embodiment of an artistic sample, but colour markers either. Two levels of custody magic were incarnated in abra fabrics – an external one preconditioned with ornamental framing and an internal one associated with colour notions. Proceeding from the combinations of the major fund of patterns in the context of composition and colour variation masters created different fabrics. The author of the article points to the fact that traditional weavers determined the name of fabries according to a leading ornamental element or by colour range.
colour, silken fabrics, abra fabrics, atlas, adras, shokhi
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