Suzanni’s best-known silk embroideries from Central Asia are large intricately stitched wall-hangings. Masterpieces created as a collaboration of women from one family or tribe. Often started at the birth of a daughter and completed by shortly before marriage, they formed part of a dowery. Colours are used for their aesthetic effect, and for what they symbolize. Red the colour of love. White the colour of kings. Nature's colour is green, signifying health & rest; blue for the sky; yellow the warmth of the sun; and violet the colour of spring.