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suggests a new possibility for the origin of the word abr: it may have come from the word abrang, meaning "watercolor." therefore, abr fabrics can most likely be translated as "watercolor fabrics." from sogdian silk to arab cotton silk samite, th century, pritzer collection, chicago the resist-dyed textiles
great silk road. after the arab invasion, however, silk samites disappeared. they were replaced by different types of cotton fabrics and, first of all, resist-dyed ikats, known now as asb in arabic (from the arab verb asaba, "to tie up"). it is interesting to compare sogdian samites with arabic asb textiles...
https://voicesoncentralasia.org/how-ikat-accompanied-history-in-central-asia/