ANTIQUE UZBEK HAND -LOOMED SILK TOP CAPE ROBE PARANDJA

I'm honored to be able to offer you the antique Uzbek Parandja, the top cape robe. Circa: 1900-20's. Very good condition. It is from Tashkent area. The outer layer is traditional hand-loomed silk + cotton Banaras decorated with hand-embroidery, silk+silver tassels and braiding Jiyak. The lining is silk+cotton ikat Adras added with Russian printed cotton.

Size: length-56 in, chest - 60 in

Yashmak or Parandja was compulsory part in women traditional costume and was used as outdoor clothes for women - city women and rich village women. Wearing of yashmak was regulated by custom, etiquette and religion, knowledge of which was given from childhood. Yashmak was a big and wide robe with long and nerrow fictional sleeves. Those sleeves were placed on the back and fastened together. They were called as sovchok and purely hidden the figure of women from head to toes. The face was hidden with thick rectangular net chachvan, chimbat, made from black horse hair, embroidered with black fabric from all sides, or decorated with contour embroidering or machine made ornament. The history of yashmak is long and difficult. The word faranja (distorted paranja (yashmak) ) from Persian means dress. Faranji was created in Egypt and from there was spread to other Eastern countries. In Central Asia with Sheybaniy ruling period (16th C) faranji-robe was clothes of  scientists. In India and Central Asia with Bobur and Timurids, faranji was the overcoat of scientists, state officials and clergy. The word faranji was used for both men and women clothes. Central Asia yashmak was ancient prototype. Those expensive clothes had transformed in feudal period, changing in accordance with new time, yet saving its old original base. So, yashmak, of Central Asia women was based on faranji - holiday women robe, worn as overcoat. In 16 century long and non-comfortable sleeves became decorative details, and completely lost any practical meaning in 18th century and were transformed in long stripes, sewed as real sleeves and fastened together on th back.  In the times of later feudalism the meaning of yashmak had changed. It had hidden women from sights. Wearing of yashmak had matched the principals of Islam. That religion had demanded the covering of face and figure of women. In the process of life changing in 20th century, yashmak had lost its meaning.

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