outermost garment
16th Century Safavid Persian woman's garb.
The short sleeve bird and flower Persian coat is a Ruyi-Qaba,
almost always the outermost garment.
(This coat may be either long or short sleeved)
This coat is fully lined and completely hand sewn.
outermost garment back
The blue Persian coat is the Ziri-Qaba,
This particular piece is generally the middle layer and typically long sleeved.
Long sleeves on Persian garments hang past the fingertips at least 6-12 inches or more.
This coat is lined all but the sleeves. The blue outer layer of the coat,
visible and non-visible seams are completely hand sewn and seams on the lining are hand sewn.
innermost garment side
innermost garment front
Created by Lady Satine De La Courcel

A brief Bibliography

Scarce, Jennifer, Women's Costume of the Near and Middle East, Routeledge Curson

Burnham, Dorothy, Cut My Cote, Royal Ontario Museum

Pope, Aurthur Uphram & Ackerman Physllis, A Survey of Persian Art, Vols V and XII Oxford University Press

Pope. Arthur Uphram, Masterpieces of Persian Art, Dryden Press Plate 153

Lowry, Glen D, A Jewelers Eye, Islamic Arts of the Book From the Vever Collection, University of Washington Press plates ,9, 35, 60, 63, 67

Loukonie, Vladimir & Anatoli Ivanov Persian Lost Treasures, Sirocco, plate 185,

Canby, Sheila, R, The Golden Age of Persian Art 1501-1722, Harry N Abrams

Welch, Stuart Cary, Wonders of the Age Masterpieces of Early Safavid Painting 1501-1576, Fogg Art Museum

Thompson Jon & Sheila Canby Hunt for Paradise, Court Ars of Safavid Iran 1501-1576, Skira

Sims Ealanor Peerless Images Persian Paintings aand Its Sources, Yale

Welch, Stuart Cary A Kings Book of Kings, Helvetica

Chardin, Sir John, Travels in Persia 1673-1677, Dover

Membre, Michele, Mission to the Lord Sophy of Persin 1539-1542, Gibb

Iranica.com



Last updated: 9/25/2007