coat; overgown BM-As1905-0518.69

Period:Unknown Production date:1905 (circa?)
Materials:wool, gold, silk,
Technique:twill weave, brocaded, satin,

Dimensions:Length: 129 centimetres Width: 90 centimetres

Description:
A woman’s ceremonial coat (sleeveless) / over-gown, a ‘sikok’; calf-length. Made from weft dominant twill woven wool cloth (green ‘ground’) with narrow white, pink, red and blue bands. Centre front opening; square cut armholes. Brocaded cloth stitched to shoulders: all-over diamond patterning: gold metal-wrapped thread on a maroon satin silk ground. Pink/red satin silk piping at hemline and vents. Unlined. Small holes in woollen cloth.
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Comments:From acquisition “over-gown”. See: http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/ See Curator’s Comments for very similar coat: As1992,16.1.