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| Local Name | Chadari |
| Object Category | Cloak |
| Gender | Female |
| Place Of orgin | Asia |
| Region | Afghanistan |
| Object Range | Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran |
| Dimensions | Length: 42 cm Width: 35 cm |
| Materials | Cotton Linen |
| Technique | Hand Stitched Hand Embroidered |
| Motif | Floral |
| Provenance | Purchased, Augusta Auction Company, Vermont 2023 |
| Location | The Zay Zay: (Arabic: costume, Pl. azyaā’), a set of clothes in a style typical of a particular country or historical period. Initiative |
| Status | In Storage |
| ZI number | ZI2023.501012.6 ASIA |
Object Note
Part of a set constituting six more items – two pieces of (ZI2023.501012.1 TUNISIA, ZI2023.501012.2 ASIA, ZI2023.501012.3 ASIA, ZI2023.501012.4 ASIA, and ZI2023.501012.5 OMAN).
Object History
This white linen Afghan women’s cloak was purchased along with six more items by Dr. Reem Tariq
Ṭariq: (Arabic; Synonym: tulle_bi_talli; talli; badla; khus_dozi ), series of small metal knots made on a woven net ground as embellishment. The term is commonly used in the Levant Arab region specifically in Lebanon. Ṭariq: (Arabic; Synonym: tulle_bi_talli; talli; badla; khus_dozi ), series of small metal knots made on a woven net ground as embellishment. The term is commonly used in the Levant Arab region specifically in Lebanon.
Object Features
This is an ivory linen miniature-size Afghan women’s (chadari Chadari: (Persian: Čādor – Tent; from Sanskrit: Chhatra – Ceremonial parasol), a loose-fitting, head, face and body covering worn by some women in Afghanistan and neighbouring regions. It typically consists of a head cover stitched to a veil like cloak with only a mesh screen or small opening for the eyes. ), also famously called the (burqa).
It has a skull cap embellished with floral motifs executed in a quilting style, running stitches with ivory cotton threads. It has a finely pleated back and eye openings embellished with (buttonhole_stitch)es in ivory cotton threads and a triangular gusset to cover the torso also embellished with floral motifs executed with running stitches in grey and ivory cotton threads.
Although described as a ‘[…] woman’s regional headdress with neck drape, Northern Afghan […]’, the miniature size of the piece suggests that either it was a seamster’s sample or a chadari Chadari: (Persian: Čādor – Tent; from Sanskrit: Chhatra – Ceremonial parasol), a loose-fitting, head, face and body covering worn by some women in Afghanistan and neighbouring regions. It typically consists of a head cover stitched to a veil like cloak with only a mesh screen or small opening for the eyes. for a doll.
The Zay Zay: (Arabic: costume, Pl. azyaā’), a set of clothes in a style typical of a particular country or historical period. Initiative has another similar but full-size chadari Chadari: (Persian: Čādor – Tent; from Sanskrit: Chhatra – Ceremonial parasol), a loose-fitting, head, face and body covering worn by some women in Afghanistan and neighbouring regions. It typically consists of a head cover stitched to a veil like cloak with only a mesh screen or small opening for the eyes. – ZI2021.500885 ASIA – in blue meant for an adult woman.
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