Man's coat from Uzbekistan

Man's coat from Uzbekistan, silk thread embroidery on a cotton ground, late 19th century, probably from Shahr-i Sabz. Man's coat from Uzbekistan, silk thread embroidery on a cotton ground, late 19th century, probably from Shahr-i Sabz. Courtesy Cleveland Museum of Art, acc. no. 1916.1412.

The Cleveland Museum of Art, USA, holds a prime example of an Uzbek man's coat made of a cotton ground material and embroidered in cross-stitch with silk thread. It measures 150 x 218 cm. The design of the embroidery was first drawn onto the coat, after which the coat was taken apart and the separate segments embroidered, after which the coat was sewn together again. The coat is lined with ikat cloth.

The curator the Museum assigns this coat to the town of Shahr-i Sabz and dates it to the late nineteenth century.

See also the TRC digital exhibition Dressing The Stans: Textiles, Dress and Jewellery from Central Asia (TRC, Leiden, 2017).

Museum online catalogue (retrieved 31 August 2017).

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