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VINTAGE TRADITIONAL UZBEK NATURAL SILK IKAT ROBE CHAPAN
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As the Soviet era ended and Westerners discovered Central Asian folk arts, the interest of Central Asia land escalated. It is the land of warlike nomads, the great ancient civilizations, gifted scholars, philosophers and generals, the legendary Silk road and its legacy: different kinds of extraordinary silk and embroidery; the land of exceptional nature, architecture and mysterious "sufi"- preachers, and, the most important, warm and skilful people. The garments more than other elements of material culture reflects national specific of the people and relate to the number of stable ethnic signs. It reflects traditional having root in ethnic history, social relations, ethnic norms, etc. East_treasures offers you the whole world of original old and modern Central Asia garments, affordably priced and in beautiful condition. Our lots are genuine folk art, designed in the long traditional manner.
LOT NAME
ROBE Chapan
ORIGIN
CIRCA
Uzbekistan
1970’s
MATERIALS
ikat silk 100% Khanatlas, cotton 100% lining, quilted with cotton wool
CONDITION
very good
SIZE
length-42 in, chest – 48 in, From the end of one sleeve up to another – 56 in.
We’re honored to be able to offer you the long traditional Uzbek robe Chapan. It is hand-made of the nice colored silk ikat, lined with natural cotton.
Ikat is one of the most interesting part of Central Asian Applied Arts and the most prestigious and beautiful fabric. It is also known in Persian as ‘abr’ for ‘cloud’, in Turkic as ‘ipekshahi’, in Arabic as ‘asab’, in Hindi as ‘patola’. Like a cloud Uzbek Ikats display a great variety of patterns, may be composed of several combinations of materials and may be woven in both simple and complex structures. The single features shared by all of these extraordinary textiles is the complex dyeing process which is undertaken before the individual elements are arranged upon the loom. All ikat cloths have either their warps, their wefts, or, in rare cases, both warps and wefts dyed only in selective areas and only before those threads have been placed before the loom. The process of preventing the dyes from penetrating the entire warp or weft is known as ‘reserving’ or ‘resist dye’ and this produces the essential characteristics of ikat cloth. At the points where the reserved undyed areas meet the dyed sections, carefully controlled amounts of color merge with one another, randomly creating subtle, slightly blurred patterns. This dyeing technique ensures that each abr (cloud) is unique, and it is this aesthetic quality which suggests an analogy with clouds.
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