Dress, woman's / Kujlak

Description

Woman's dress, made from viscose fabric printed with a bold striped lozenge pattern in different colours imitating warp ikat weave, bought in Bukhara, Uzbekistan in 1984: Central Asia, Tajikistan, Leninabad (Khujand), 1983.

Museum reference

A.1984.531

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Dress, woman's / Kujlak

Production information

Leninabad, Tajikistan, Central Asia

Date

1983

Physical description

Viscose fabric printed in different colours

Associations

Cold War

References

Scarce, Jennifer M. “Continuity and Modernity in the Costume of the Muslims of Central Asia” (Chapter 13, 21 pages). In: Akiner, Shirin ed. Cultural Change & Continuity In Central Asia. London: Routledge, 1991 (1st ed.). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203038130