{"id":48238,"date":"2026-01-19T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/?p=48238"},"modified":"2026-01-18T23:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T22:47:11","slug":"quiet-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/photo-of-the-day\/quiet-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Quiet hours"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Four women from the \u2018Muras\u2019 craft association in Kyzyl Suu, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeti-%C3%96g%C3%BCz_District\">Jeti Oguz district<\/a><\/strong>, Kyrgyzstan: the photograph captures the meticulousness and feminine crafts(wo)manship of shyrdak, a Kyrgyz textile craft. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shyrdak\">Shyrdak<\/a><\/strong> refers to fabrics with patterns created by cutting and sewing felted wool sheets. After felting the wool, the craftswoman must cut out the patterns and then sew them together with great detail. Highly insulating, shyrdak was originally used to insulate yurts from the harsh winters. Today, it remains a colourful cultural heritage, inscribed on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ich.unesco.org\/en\/video\/09093?id=09093\">UNESCO&#8217;s Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2012<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Credits : Pierre-Armand Dussex (Switzerland) <\/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>Four women from the \u2018Muras\u2019 craft association in Kyzyl Suu, Jeti Oguz district, Kyrgyzstan: the photograph captures the meticulousness and feminine crafts(wo)manship of shyrdak, a Kyrgyz textile craft. Shyrdak refers to fabrics with patterns created by cutting and sewing felted wool sheets. After felting the wool, the craftswoman must cut out the patterns and then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":984,"featured_media":48239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4087,4647,513,4371,2578,4002,1036,4071,4879,4858],"coauthors":[3992],"class_list":["post-48238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day","tag-central-asia","tag-cultural-heritage","tag-culture","tag-handicraft","tag-kyrgyzstan","tag-photo-of-the-day","tag-unesco","tag-women","tag-wool","tag-world-heritage-list"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48238","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=48238"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48247,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48238\/revisions\/48247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48238"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=48238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}