Bukhara’s costume of the 16th — 17th centuries in miniatures of Movarounnahr
The oriental miniature is a unique source for the study of history of the ancient costume. The miniature gives not just models of the costume, which had lost because of its temporality but, moreover, allows defining of aesthetic taste of the people, their local originality and behavior.
Thanks to this source, the national costumes of Near East, India, Turkey and Central Asia of different historical periods have been successfully studied as well as have been revealed the missing links in costume's evolution, which could not be defined because of ethnographic data missing.
Particularly this concerns the Bukhara's costume of the 16th - 17th centuries, which the museums of Uzbekistan and collections of foreign museums seek while the samples of the latest period (the 19th - early 20th cc.) are numerous enough. Another reason of the interest to Bukhara's costume of the earlier period is that this issue became vital after Uzbekistan obtained Independence and public performances became a tradition. Materials from Bukhara's...