European Ornamental Holiday Stocking

Sand-colored with dark brown blobs, as if a map had been sewn into a sock.

This is an ornamental holiday stocking in suzani fabric. Suzani is an embroidered textile from Central Asia, and the word comes from the Persian for needle, since the designs are stitched by hand. A small stocking with a pale tan face and dark brown, wavy shapes stitched across it. A short, golden fringe sits at the cuff, which has a darker brown lining at the back. A twisted cream loop is attached at the top. It is 4 inches wide and 6 long.

Modest in color but oddly confident in pattern.