Antique tribal costume - Ethnic costumes - Ethnic dresses - Hmong skirt - Nomads dresses

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If you select in our site costume in type's criterion, you will find an assortment of traditional antique and contemporary tribal costume pieces selected in different countries : Central Asian ikat coat and chyrpy, Ottoman silk embroidered jacket, Pakistan jumlo, Naga warrior's shawl, Blue Hmong pleated skirt, embroidered trousers from Laos, blue indigo dyed wedding dress from Yemen ... You will discover the variety of materials, dyes, shapes, styles, adornments and also the differences between clothes for everyday use and festive occasions. It appears, how the important range of tribal antique clothes reveal their strong signifiance, link to the different identities of peoples from around the world.

The shape and style of antique tribal costume pieces produced on the six continents reveals the mankind's highly rich skill, creativity and aesthetic. The tribal clothes' materials, techniques, forms, motifs and colours identified the geography, the history, the religious beliefs, the lifestyle and cultural differences within people such as nomads dresses, Hmong skirts and ethnic clothes from Central Asia. Differences also existed between antique tribal costumes for everyday use, for festive occasions and for mourning. Through the middle of Central Asia, antique tribal costumes despite various inflences of the trades routes of the Silk Road, kept the shape and style of ethnic clothes which were long and wide woven in cotton, silk or wool with often with bright colours and embroideies. The elite of Ottoman people had antique tribal costumes in velvet, silk satin, wool, felt with beautiful embroideries with gold, silver, metallic brocarding or silk and mettalic embroidery. Very different were antique tribal costumes in north Laos, particularly the blue pleated skirts made of batik hemp dyed with indigo, embroidered and appliqued of the Blue Hmong women. Amazing were the different regions' ethnic costumes in Yemen: the blue indigo dyed cotton dresses all embroidered, the wedding dresses embellished with bright coloured cotton or metallic threads. The important variety of tribal antique clothes reveal their strong signifiance, link to the different identities of peoples from around the world.