Woman's cloak (chyrpy) (1800s): Art, History and Details

Woman's cloak (chyrpy) (1800s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: Woman's cloak (chyrpy)
• Date: 1800s
• Culture: Uzbekistan, Bukhara
• Type: Garment
• Technique: Cotton; silk: embroidery
• Dimensions: Overall: 112.4 x 58.4 cm (44 1/4 x 23 in.)
• Collection: T - Islamic
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1916.1468

Collection credit

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade

Further reading listed by the museum

• 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.
• Gervers, V. “Construction of Türkmen Coats.” Textile History 14, no. 1 (1983).
• 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.

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