Caftan

A caftan is in the beginning a length Eastern Vêtement. Of type dress, carried by the men as well as by the women, one currently carries from there until in most Western of the Moslem countries (cf the multitude of Moroccan sites referring to this type of dress for example name=" DarBelghazi" > [http://museebelghazi.marocoriental.com/musee-costumes.html page of the site of the ethnographic museum ''' Dar Belghazi ''' on the costumes ]. In the Slavic context or Russian, it acts putôt of a filled clothing. More in the south and in the Moslem culture in particular it is about clothing of pageantry.

Other C-Ws communication exist. Cafetan is also correct. In the past one finds also Kaftan , khaftan or even qaftan . The French word is a transliteration of a Turkish name itself borrowed from the Persan.

Under the Ottoman Empire

The caftans carried by the sultans of stool constitute one of the most splendid collections of the Palais of Topkapı in Istanbul. Some of them were extremely invaluable. They summer employed like rewards for the services of most important notable and for the victorious generals at the time of refined religious festivals.

The caftans were frequently embroidered on before and on the handles. A strict coding, by certain aspects similar to the Heraldic , existed concerning decorations, reason S, Ruban S and colors which corresponded to the row of the carrier.

At the 14th century the reasons are wide and the colors are wise. With the wire of the centuries these characteristics evolve/move to become respectively finer and more brilliant. (Under the Ottoman Empire) the art of the caftans culminates towards second half of the 17th century with the fabrics of the type Selimiye with broad band vertical and sumptuous and meticulous embroideries.

The fabrics were mainly produced with Istanbul and Brousse when they were not been essential of as far as Venice, Gène, the Perse, the India or the China. Each fabric having particular properties and thus a different name: Velvet, Taffeta of course but also of the more exotic and rare names such as bürümcük, aba, canfes, gatma, gezi, diba, kutnu, kemha, seraser, serenk, zerbaft and well of others. Certain colors were used than of others: blue of China , red of Turkey , purple, pişmis aya , quince cooked or yellow saffron .

In Russia

In the east of Europe and the west of septentrional Asia the word kaftan is employed for another type of clothing: a kind of long costume of very broad man but with the tight handles. At the 19th century the caftan is the dress of outside by far more running for the small people, merchants and peasants. They are currently carried like religious signs by the sect very preserving of the Orthodoxes Old Believers. Lastly, the Cassock S of the Clergy S roman catholic and Anglican are clothing rather close by the cut to the caftans.

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