#nomads cloth

Woman’s wedding headdress “Saukele”. Kazakh nomads, 19th cent, Kazakhstan, Central Asia. Wool and cotton cloth, metallic thread, fur of fox, copper, brass, silver, cornelian, corall, pearl. Total height 107.0 cm.  

Women’s wedding traditional costume. Karakalpak, nomad’s culture. Ethnic silver jewellery, corals, silk embroidered indigo dress. 19th century, Central Asia. The Russian Museum of Ethnography.

An embroidered Kazakh coat from 19th-century Uzbekistan is one of the items on display at the exhibition at the Textile Museum.