Markanda

Silk Road journey

Magnificent stands palace bold madrasas and bazaars of old. We've heard many a story told, but nothing does prepare the eye, to see so colorful and bright from far and wide in rich sunlight, The blue and turquoise colored tiles.

 Named after the old name of the city Samarkand in present day Uzbekistran, this crescent shaped shawl draws its inspiration from the intricately tiled Mardasas and Bazaar buildings of old. Blue and Turquoise flashes that rise above a landscape of tan and dust colored buildings, visible from afar. The shawl is worked top down in bands of Mosaic colorwork, an easy slip stitch technique using only one color per row and requiring no stranding or carrying the second yarn.

Pattern is both charted and fully written.