overgown; coat BM-As1905-0518.67

Period:Unknown Production date:1905 (circa?)
Materials:silk, silver, gold, cotton,
Technique:plain weave, brocaded, satin, braided,

Dimensions:Length: 130 centimetres Width: 77.50 centimetres

Description:
A woman’s ceremonial coat (sleeveless) / over-gown, a ‘sikok’; calf-length. Made from mid-brown tabby silk cloth. Centre front opening; square cut armholes. Tapered polychrome panels inserted either side of opening, near side vents and wide panel at centre back [21.5 cms wide]. Polychrome floral brocaded silk stripes and bands. Stitched to shoulders is thicker brocaded cloth (rossette patterning worked on the diagonal, outlined in pink silk, infilled in silver metal-wrapped thread, ground in gold. Red satin silk piping at hemline and vents. Lined with (unevenly dyed) blue tabby cotton cloth. Two blue silk braided loops stitched to back sides, at waistline.
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Comments:From acquisition “lady’s over-gown”. See: http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/ See Curator’s Comments for very similar coat: As1992,16.1.