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Collection Online as of December 19, 2025

Woman's cloak (chyrpy)

1800s

Uzbekistan, Bukhara

Cotton; silk: embroidery
Overall: 112.4 x 58.4 cm (44 1/4 x 23 in.)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade 1916.1468
Location: Not on view

Description

This yellow silk is richly embroidered in the button-hole stitch. The pattern of this woman's cloak resembles one of the patterns on the so-called Bokhara stripes used for fixing tents.

The garment is lined with printed cotton fabric, which seems to be a product of India or Persia, and very crude block-printed cotton fabric with simple allover patterns of red and black dots and circular medallions.
  • ?-1916
    Mr. Jeptha Homer Wade II [1857-1926] and Mrs. Ellen Garretson Wade [1859-1917], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1916-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Gluck, Jay, and Sumi Hiramoto Gluck. A Survey of Persian Handicraft: A Pictorial Introduction to the Contemporary Folk Arts and Art Crafts of Modern Iran. Tehran: Published under the auspices of the Bank Melli Iran [by] Survey of Persian Art, 1977. p. 250
    Gervers, V. “Construction of Türkmen Coats.” Textile History 14, no. 1 (1983). pp. 3–27 doi.org
    Amstey, Marvin S., Frederica Amstey, and George W. O'Bannon. Vanishing Jewels: Central Asian Tribal Weavings : a Catalog of an Exhibition by the Rochester Museum & Science Center, September 14, 1990 to March 17, 1991 from the Collection of Marvin and Frederica Amstey. Rochester, NY: The Center, 1990. p. 73
    Atanova, Snezhanna. “Rites of Passage.” HALI; the international journal of Oriental carpets and textiles. Issue 224, Summer 2025. p. 96-101
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