Advanced Search
Requires Photography
Man's coat
Central Asian, Turkmen
1935
Object Place: Turkman
Medium/Technique
Silk; weaving (warp pattern)
Dimensions
151 cm (59 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. Eric Schroeder
Accession Number65.1353
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsFashion and Textiles
ClassificationsCostumes
DescriptionLong, open down the front, long sleeves wide at the shoulder, narrower at the wrist. Silk in warp-face weave in pattern of warp stripes: wide-yellow stripes, alternately light and dark. Between them narrow white stripes with with black edges. Lined with silk woven with a blue-black warp and magenta weft. All opening edges have narrow card-woven band attached with principal pattern of red and blue chevrons.