AN UZBEK IKAT COAT
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE UK ESTATE
Uzbekistan, early 20th century

The single ikat silk dyed in purple, magenta, yellow, and indigo, gathered at the waist and marked in orange floss silk, lightly quilted in vertical bands in running stitch, the opening and inner front hem in diagonal green and white striped silk, lined in Russian printed cotton on red ground, side vents reinforced by a polychrome silk thread, the entire coat worked by hand, 122cm long from the nape.