Ishik - winter shapan for wealthy Karakalpak women

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Ishik - winter shapan for wealthy Karakalpak women

In winter, rich Karakalpak women wore the shapan from expensive ikat silk ishik, furlined and trimmed the sleeves too.

The sides and flaps of ishik were trimmed with otters fur. They wore it independently of age, but they sewed jengse only for young from 15 – 30; old women were indecent to wear this decoration. An ishik was belted on metal or bone needles of knitted narrow belt with fringe.

You will find more examples of national Uzbek clothes in the book-album "Traditional Uzbek costume on materials of museum and private collections of Uzbekistan (Part 2)" (volume XLIX) from the series "Cultural legacy of Uzbekistan in the world collections".

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Ishik - winter shapan for wealthy Karakalpak women