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<\/a>Both dancing boys and dancing girls wore distinctive two-tiered skirts when they performed. The boy to the right, from the Album of Ahmed I (c. 1610), is shown in the complete outfit, with a ruffled hip skirt and a striped full-length skirt. A number of artists, both Turkish and European, drew stylized renditions of the striped designs.<\/p>\nI’m not sure whether the designs were in general use, or whether they were used only on dancing skirts.<\/p>\n
Professional dancers balancing plates<\/a>, drawn by European artist\u00a0Wehme Zacharias in c. 1582:<\/p>\n Bazaar paintings from c. 1618-1625:<\/p>\n Women dancing at a ladies’ party<\/a>, drawn by European artist\u00a0Wehme Zacharias in c. 1582:<\/p>\n The woman on the left wears a pattern of triple \u00e7intamani, and the woman on the right wears a pattern of dots (or a single\u00a0\u00e7intamani?) joined by a lattice of tiger stripes. A woman on the other side of the drawing<\/a> wears a similar pattern:<\/p>\n Johannes Lewenklaw must have spent time with the same models, because in c. 1585 he drew two<\/a> whose kaftans are identical to ones drawn by Wehme Zacharias. The woman on the far right is identical to the woman above, and the woman in the orange kaftan is identical to the woman in the first picture, on the left. (Click on the picture to see it full-size, then squint–the triple\u00a0\u00e7intamani motif is faint.)<\/p>\n Another patterned kaftan<\/a> drawn by Johannes Lewenklaw:<\/p>\n Scattered blue-on-blue sunburst? floral? designs in a late 16th-century painting<\/a> from a court album:<\/p>\n A wealth of patterns from the Codex Vindobonensis 8626, circa 1590:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n
\nKaftans<\/h4>\n
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\nRugs<\/h4>\n