Developing Patterns from Extent Persian Garments
Shirt from the Pazryk Burial Mounds: 5th century B.C.
Wool Shirt, ca. 1000 B.C. in the Southern Tarim Basin Pictured in The Mummies of Urumchi by Elizabeth Wayland Barber, W.W. Norton & Company, 1999
Egyptian Shirt, 1400 B.C.
Shirt Sassanid Period, found in Egypt
Shirt of Leukyoné, Sassanid
Mummy, Early 7th Century wearing a coat
10th cent. Egyptian Child's Pirahan Observations by Melinda Haren, Jennifer Davis and Rose Otter, 2003
10th Cent. Egyptian Male Pirahan With Trim
14th Cent.Egyptian, Male Pirahan With pattern darned embroidery, Pictured in Embroideries and Samplers from Islamic Eqypt, Marianne Ellis, Ashmolean Museum Oxford, 2001
16th Cent., Male, Silk Pirahan: , From the Collection of Thomas J. Daman, Dated 1583, pictured in Masterpieces of Persian Art, Arthur Upham Pope, The Dryden Press, NY, 1945, pg. 202
16th Cent. Male Amulet Pirahan Amulet pirahan from the Ashmoleum Museum in Oxford
Male Pirahan: Extent male pirahan, 17th or 18th century. The pirahan is made of silk with brocade panels.
14th Century Female Pirahan: , from the Sara Kuehn Collection, pictured on the Persian Yahoogroups site, posted by Anahita al Shazhiyya. This garment may be female.
Persian Dalmaticus: Silk Tissue Dalmatic, 17th century, located in the Victoria and Albert Museum, pictured in An Illustrated Souvenir of the Exhibition of Persian Art, Hudson & Kearns Ltd. 1934
Egyptian Embroidered Wool Dalmaticus: Wool dalmaticus with embroidery from 7th century Egypt.
Egyptian Dalamaticus: 400 to 500 A.D., Located in the Metropolotin Museum of Art
Male Under-vest:
Kordi: 17th/18th century Picture from The Encylcopedia Iranica Online, 2004, located in the Museum Fur Islamahce Kunst, Germany.
Kordi (Male under-vest), Qajar, Gold couching over applique, from an online auction house, www.textileasart.com, current location unknown
Not Pictured : Parthian child’s wool jacket fragment lined with cotton, dated to the 1st century B.C. found at Shahr-i Qumis during excavations by the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Fur Coat from the Krasnoyarks Region, ca. 1st century B.C., Pictured in The Frozen Tombs: The Culture and Art of the Ancient Tribes of Siberia, D.M. Wilson, British Museum Publications Ltd, 1978, Located in the Hermitage Museum
Cherchen Man: 1000 B.C. from the Tarim Basin (the Caucasian Mountains) The origins of Persians.
Sassanid Coat, Early 7th Cent., picture provided to me by Jennifer Davis
Sassanid Riding Coat with Construction Diagrams Found in Antinoé Egypt, located in Museum für Byzantinische Kunst Berlin
Sassanid Riding Outfit, 6th Century Orig. in the Neues Museum, Berlin
Sogdian Outfit, 8th Cent.
Kaftan 8th - 10th century, Caucasus Mountains, Silk, linen and fur, located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Kaftan 8th - 9th century, Northern Caucasus Mountains, Silk with green simurgh patterns, located at the Hermitage Musuem in St. Petersburg
10th Century Tiraz Coat : Located in the Textile Museum of Washington D.C. TM 3.116, photo taken by Jennifer Davis
Fragments of a jacket, early 14th century Egypt or Syria; Possibly made for the Rasulid sultan of Yemen
Extant Silk, Male Ruyi Qabā: in the Moscow Kremlin Armory, last quarter of the 16th century pictured in Lost Treasures of Persia, Vladimir Loukonine & Anatoli Ivanov, Confidential Concepts, 1996
Joba: 1600 located in the Museum of Oriental Treasures in Moscow. Most likely it is a male garment.
Joba Sleeves: 16th century Pictured in "Hunt for Paradise", Located in the Topkapi Museum
Panels from a Ruyi Qaba: 16th
century, located in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Pictured in "Palace and
Mosque"
Late 16th/Early
17th Century Qaba: given to Queen Christiana of Sweden by the Russian
Czar in 1644, resides in the Royal Armory of Stockholm, pictured in The
Arts of Persia, R.W. Ferrier, ed., 1989, copyrighted by Hossein Amirsadeghi
Side Gore: Side gore from a 17th
century qaba
Embroidered
17th century qabā: located in Osterreichisches Museum fur Agewandte
Kunst, pictured in A Pictorial History of Embroidery, Marie Schuette
and Sigrid Muller-Christiansen, NY: Frederick A. Praeger, 1964, Pg. 321
~ I am grateful to Mistress Marcele de Montsegur for this reference.
17th
century qabā: pictured in Arte do Oriente Islamico, op. C.7, No
85-88, Coat L.1.06m
17th
century qabā, pictured in Arte do Oriente Islamico, op. C.7, No
85-88, Coat L.1.04m
17th
century qabā, pictured in Arte do Oriente Islamico, op. C.7, No
85-88, Coat L.1.12m
17th
century qabā, pictured in “A ‘Safavid Cadabi’ in the Royal Ontario
Museum Reconsidered”, Marta Dal Farra, vol. 25, nos. 1-2. The Carpets
and Textiles of Iran, New Perspectives in Research, The Journal of the
Society for Iranian Studies, 1993, pg 81-90
17th century qabā: located in the Textile Museum in Lyon France, pictured in Musees et Monuments de France/Foundation Paribas ~ I am grateful to Mistress Nicolette Bonhemme for this reference and to Leeann Posovad for finding the actual photograph.
17th century qabā: located in the Textile Museum Inv no. 1985.5.1 in Washington D.C., photo taken by Jennifer Davis, Also pictured in Persian Textiles, Reath and Sachs, 1937, Yale University Press
Ruyi Qaba: 17th century, pictured in "An Illustrated Souvenir of an Exhibition at Burlington House."
Ruyi Qaba: 17th/18th century qabā located in the Textile Museum Inv no. 3.112 in Washington D.C.
17th/18th
century qabā located in the Textile Museum Inv no. 1972.27.3 in
Washington D.C., photo taken by Jennifer Davis
18th
century qabā: located in the Yale University Art Gallery, pictured
in A Sense of Pattern
Embroidered women’s qabā: 17th century, red satin ground, pictured in A Pictorial History of Embroidery, Marie Schuette and Sigrid Muller-Christiansen, NY: Frederick A. Praeger, 1964, Pg. 321 ~ I am grateful to Mistress Marcele de Montsegur for this reference.
Short Women’s qabā: 17th century, From an online auction house, www.textileasart.com, current location unknown, blue silk
Short Women’s qabā: 17th century, From an online auction house, www.textileasart.com, current location unknown, blue silk
Women's Coat, Beige Silk, Late 17th/Early 18th Century, Pictured in Women's Costume of the Near and Far East, Jennifer Scarce, Unwin Hyman ltd., London, 1986
Short Women’s qabā: 18th century, From an online auction house, www.textileasart.com, current location unknown
Short Women’s qabā: 18th century, From an online auction house, www.textileasart.com, current location unknown, red
Cuff from a pair of pants, pictured in Embroideries and Samplers from Islamic Eqypt, Marianne Ellis, Ashmolean Museum Oxford, 2001, pg. 20
Egyptian Salvar, Mamluk Period photo obtained from www.redkaganate.com
Extent čaķčur (leggings), 16th Century, photo provided to me by Jennifer Davis
Naqshe: embroidered female pants, 17th century, Victoria and Albert Museum, the pants have been stretched out to make a covering
Naqshe: 18th century Zoriastrian, from an online auction house, current location unknown
Naqshe: 19th century, Victoria and Albert Museum, the pants have been stretched out to make a covering
Salvar and Ballerina Skirt: 19th Century, from an online auction house, current location unknown
Egyptian Female Dress, 4th cent. B.C., pictured in Women's Costume of the Near and Far East, Jennifer Scarce, Unwin Hyman ltd., London, 1986
Tatooed arm from the High Altai Burrows in the Pazryk Burial Mounds, Pictured in Frozen Tombs of Siberia
Brocade Trim 17th Century
Cope, Silk Satin Brocade, Dark Blue, 17th Century Located in the Musem Fur Kunst Und Industrie
Chasuble Late 17th Century Silk Wrapped In Metal Foil 110cm By 74cm Pictured in Persian Art