Preserving Tradition: The Art of Torghut Embroidery in Khar Us
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This video is about the embroidery of the Torghuts in Khar Us. Making traditional dress and embroidery were essential skills for Torghut females, transforming their everyday attire into gorgeous ritual costumes in the past. As a bridge between tradition and the present, she claims to have provided all the material necessities that a mother should do for her children. She explained that she invested most of her time in embroidering traditional objects as elegantly as possible for her children, even though they do not appreciate it as much as she did. In addition to this, she has also made various objects for other purposes. In 2014, she made 20 saddlebags with Torghut embroideries and presented them as a gift to the Mongolians of the Bulgan province in Mongolia. In her understanding, although her children are not keen to inherit this tradition from her, she is attempting to make as many things as possible and pass them down to her children and grandchildren. Given that they are increasingly distancing themselves from their traditional roots, she hopes that one day in the future, they will understand their rich cultural heritage through seeing her handmade objects.