Hood of red silk satin with chain stitch embroidery and Bokhara couching stitch in white, yellow, blue and green silk floss
- Title
- Hood of red silk satin with chain stitch embroidery and Bokhara couching stitch in white, yellow, blue and green silk floss
- LC Subject
- hats
- Description
- Hood of red silk satin with chain stitch embroidery and Bokhara couching stitch in white, yellow, blue and green silk floss; main design of flowers in an oval grid design with leaves blocked in oval patterned bands; trim bands have human-animal figures, exotic birds, flowers and vines; lined in brown cotton prior to the embroidering; edges are bound in blue satin.
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition: Department Purchase
- Motif
- Flowers Peacock Human-animal figures Parrot
- Work Type
- caps (headgear)
- Location
- Central Asia >> Asia >> Earth
- Date
- 1901/2000
- Identifier
- 1933.003.008
- Rights
- In Copyright
- License
- Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Material
- Silk Cotton
- Technique
- Chain stitch embroidery Surface embroidery Bokhara couching stitch Bound edges
- Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Primary Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Institution
- Oregon State University
- Note
- Record says this is a Sheikh's hood from Turkestan, which is south of Kazakhstan.
