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Pashtun

Dress

1900-1999

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Pashtun

Dress

1900-1999

Physical Qualities Silk, cotton, silk and metallic-wrapped embroidery threads, metallic trim, tassels of silk, cotton, metallic-wrapped threads and glass beads , 44 1/2 x 100 in. (113 x 254 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Jerry and Betty Maizlish, Sparks, Maryland
Object Number 2011.348
Full length full cut dress of purple silk with very long full sleeves. The yoke is pleated and embroidered in yellow and black threads in diamond patterns. The sleeves are very long (nearly reaching the hem), composed of multiple colored bands of silk and are embroidered in star patterns in multiple colors of silk threads. The neck is embroidered in silk threads and metallic threads. Pockets embroidered in silk and metallic threads. Back of dress has printed cotton yoke. Tassels attached to front are silk cotton, wool with metallic threads and blue glass beads.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2011; Jerry and Betty Maizlish, Sparks, MD
Anita Jones, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Embroidered Treasures: Textiles from Central Asia," November 13, 2011 - July 8, 2012.

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