Silk Road Notebooks -- A patchwork dress

[hrj]

Catalog #32: Pullover skirted dress, 5-3rd c. BC, Tomb #55 of Cemetery #1, Zaghunluq, Chärchän

Teaser image:



The really fun part of this one was taking the weaving diagram for the red and blue checked fabric and turning into a Photoshop "pattern" so I could paint it into the garment diagram. I love Photoshop.

Comments

[kahnegabs.livejournal.com]

It appears that the right sleeve much smaller than the left. Did they explain why that would be?

[hrj.livejournal.com]

That, my dear, is the difference between a photograph and a quick pen-and-ink sketch when I'm trying to get through an entire exhibit in 6 hours! No, the sleeves are not different sizes. Only the drawings of them are. The one on the viewer's right is the more accurate one for scale.

[kahnegabs.livejournal.com]

oh, sorry, I was taking it literally. ;-D

Fascinating....

[aastg.livejournal.com]

It looks so....improvised - as if the person who made it had some fabric bits and somebody needed a dress ASAP. I would be curious to know if the measurement from the center of the garment to the cuff of each sleeve is the same.