A colourful exhibition of Afghanistan’s disappearing textile traditions

If someone said Afghanistan, you’d probably conjure up a lot of images, but maybe not an image of skillfully embroidered clothing. And that’s what’s on display at the SOAS Gallery at the moment.Drawing primarily from the Karun Thakar collection, alongside loans from the V&A, the exhibition brings together around 100 embroidered objects spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Rather than presenting Afghanistan as a single cultural entity, the displays reveal the dis