The collection of the Textile Research Centre in Leiden, the Netherlands, includes a hand embroidered, woollen jacket from among the Pashtun tribe of the Mangal, who live along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan (TRC 2005.0001). The coat is decorated with stylised flowers and geometric motifs, on the front and back.
The ground material of the coat is a coarsely woven cloth. The embroidery thread is dark red, made of wool. The stitches used are chain stitch and straight stitch .
See Gillian Vogelsng and Willem Vogelsang, Encyclopedia of Embroidery from Central Asia, the Iranian Plateau and the Indian Subcontinent. 2021. London: Bloomsbury Publishers, pp. 218-219.
TRC online catalogue (retrieved 17 May 2021).
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