{"id":48121,"date":"2025-12-01T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/?p=48121"},"modified":"2025-11-30T22:37:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T21:37:59","slug":"patchworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/photo-of-the-day\/patchworks\/","title":{"rendered":"Patchworks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Leaning over a pile of embroidered fabrics called <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Suzani_(textile)\">suzanis<\/a><\/strong>, a man wearing an atlas-patterned waistcoat tidies up his shop in the city of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bukhara\">Bukhara<\/a><\/strong>, Uzbekistan. Once an important stop on the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Silk_Road\">Silk Road<\/a><\/strong>, Bukhara was one of Central Asia&#8217;s major trading centres. At the crossroads of the main thoroughfares of the old city were covered merchant passages called t\u00e2q, three of which remain today: T\u00e2q-e Zargar\u00e2n (the jewellers&#8217; dome), T\u00e2q-e Telpaq-Forush\u00e2n (the hatmakers&#8217; dome), and T\u00e2q-e Sarraf\u00e2n (the money changers&#8217; dome). These merchant domes, built in the second half of the 16th century under the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shaybanids\">Shaybanid<\/a><\/strong> dynasty, have left a lasting mark on the architecture of the old city. Today, they are a delight for tourists, who buy souvenirs of varying degrees of authenticity there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Credits : Etienne de Vaumas (France) <\/p>\n\n\n<p>Find <a style=\"color: #f57d20; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/tag\/photo-of-the-day\/\">all of our photos of the day<\/a>. You can buy some of these and receive them at home: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/novastan\/you-can-buy-novastans-pictures-of-the-day\/\">here is the list<\/a><\/span>! If you can't find your picture in the list, mail us to <a href=\"mailto:photo@novastan.org\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">photo@novastan.org<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaning over a pile of embroidered fabrics called suzanis, a man wearing an atlas-patterned waistcoat tidies up his shop in the city of Bukhara, Uzbekistan. Once an important stop on the Silk Road, Bukhara was one of Central Asia&#8217;s major trading centres. At the crossroads of the main thoroughfares of the old city were covered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":984,"featured_media":48122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1027,4087,4002,4585,4038,3974],"coauthors":[3992],"class_list":["post-48121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day","tag-architecture","tag-central-asia","tag-photo-of-the-day","tag-silk-road","tag-trade","tag-uzbekistan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48123,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48121\/revisions\/48123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48121"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=48121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}