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Start Over Donor Shorena Kurtsikidze Culture or time period Georgians (Caucasus)
Hearst Museum object titled Dress, accession number 7-10031, described as Woman’s dress (outer garment), open-front, straight, long sleeves, constructed of tightly woven warp-faced wool, indigo blue color, from 38 cm. wide fabric. Lower front opening and bottom edge of sleeves and entire bottom edge of pleated skirt (including 13 cm. high side slits) are embellished with narrow white plain-woven strip 3 cm. wide, attached with four rows of red running stitches. Sleeve edge bears additional loop design of yarn and cross-stitched diamond motif in blue and green. Entire outer edge of garment and ventilated underarm seams are edged with 3 rows of braiding, red, yellow and blue, and one raised, wrapped cord (or gimp) of alternating black and white bands (black and blue on sleeves). Bands of embroidery 4.5 cm. are around bodice neck opening, across shoulders and around seam of sleeves. Edges of embroidery are red, yellow and white chevrons, central motifs on shoulders and sleeves are red crosses, fancy reverse Z’s in red, yellow and green. There are beaded medallions on inside of back waistband. Dyes are probably from the Georgian plains. Width at waist: 80 cm; length of garment: 93 cm; total circumference at skirt bottom: ~355 cm; length of sleeve: 28 cm; total length from sleeve cuff to sleeve cuff: 116 cm; width of sleeve opening: 19 cm (38 cm circumference). Back of skirt (pleated portion) is composed of 17 gores, each ~19 cm wide at the bottom. Back skirt pleats are constructed from raised seams of gores and reinforced by downward projections of embroidery from the back of the waist.

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