Category: Asia

Costume and fashion history of Asia. Manners and Customs. Collected from rare sources.

Embroidery from the Caucasus, Greece, Indian Melicete tribe.

Embroidery, Caucasus, Greece, Natives, Melicete, tribe

FROM among the few but remarkable specimens of art-work man ship contributed to the Exhibition by the Caucasian Agricultural Society of Tiflis, we have selected a saddle-cloth from Kabardah, a district to the east of Mount Elbruz, the highest summit of the great Caucasian mountain-range. Circassian embroidered Saddle-Cloth. Embroidered dress, Greece. Hand-work of the North-American Indian Melicete tribe. International exhibition, 1862.