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Splendid Ankle Length Gold-Embroidered Velvet Coat

Discussion in 'PUBLIC Show and Tell - Share your treasures' started by Phil van Kleur, Jul 27, 2019.

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  1. Phil van Kleur

    Phil van Kleur Registered Guest

    Here are three photos of one of the most spendid items I've got. I found it in a charity shop in Oxford about ten years ago. It's a dark navy-blue velvet coat — would one call it a caftan? — lavishly embroidered with gold thread, and with about 32 gold ball buttons. I don't know where it comes from, though I have found photos of something rather similar from Lebanon.

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    Phil van Kleur, Jul 27, 2019
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  2. Midge

    Midge Super Moderator Staff Member

    It looks to me like it's from Uzbekistan. Traditionally, coats like this are worn for weddings there.
     
    Midge, Jul 27, 2019
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  3. Phil van Kleur

    Phil van Kleur Registered Guest

    That's very interesting. I wonder how it got to an Age Concern shop in Oxford.

    I just Googled "Uzbkistan wedding coat". Some of the ones I found looked more elaborate, but the first picture on https://www.cntraveler.com/galleries/2014-07-31/wedding-voyeurism-from-bukhara-to-oaxaca , "Wedding Voyeurism: Street-Side Weddings in Uzbekistan and Oaxaca", looks as though it could be related to mine.
     
    Phil van Kleur, Jul 28, 2019
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  4. Midge

    Midge Super Moderator Staff Member

    Who knows - somebody could have taken it with them when they emigrated to the UK? I am sure there are more and less elaborate ones. We went to a workshop where they were doing the embroidery when I visited Uzbekistan, they had all sorts of colors - black, purple, dark blue, dark green, dark red... And the embroidery is traditionally done by men!
     
    Midge, Jul 28, 2019
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