In 2013, at the auction held by the Rippon Boswell house in Wiesbaden, Germany, a 19th-century suzani (embroidered bedspread) from Shakhrisabz was sold for 143,000 euros. This is a record price ever paid at auction for textiles produced in Uzbekistan. Various schools of embroidery and carpet-making have developed in Uzbekistan for centuries. While embroidery for interiors was characteristic of the sedentary population, the inhabitants of the steppes were engaged in carpet-making. Embroidered panels from Shakhrisabz and Nurata, Samarkand and Tashkent, carpets woven and embroidered by Kungrat women from Surkhandarya and Arab women from Kashkadarya are famous all over the world. Today, these items are becoming increasingly more popular among collectors and researchers. They feature an amazing variety of patterns, which have been passed down from generation to generation, and techniques used in the production of textiles. The brightest and most significant examples of Uzbek embroidery and carpets produced in the 19th and early 20th centuries from six museum and five private collections from around the world are presented in this book-album.