{"id":1943,"date":"2018-06-13T18:06:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T23:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/?page_id=1943"},"modified":"2021-08-24T13:56:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T18:56:10","slug":"cuka-cuha","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/garments\/what-were-they-called\/overcoats\/cuka-cuha\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c7uka\/\u00c7uha"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"340\" height=\"787\" src=\"http:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/celebis-son_Grand-Signor-trimmed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2079\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/celebis-son_Grand-Signor-trimmed.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/celebis-son_Grand-Signor-trimmed-130x300.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/celebis-son_Grand-Signor-trimmed-86x200.jpg 86w, https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/celebis-son_Grand-Signor-trimmed-65x150.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><figcaption>The son of a celebi, or gentleman.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Literally \u201cwool broadcloth,\u201d a \u00e7uka or \u00e7uha was an overcoat made of, yes, wool broadcloth. Wool broadcloth was a top-quality fabric whose cost could rival that of many silks, a mainstay of any gentleman&#8217;s or lady&#8217;s wardrobe (as well as the winter wear of any less well-to-do person who could afford it), so a \u00e7uka was a garment of no small prestige.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We don&#8217;t have a description of how a \u00e7uka was cut. It may have been a generic term for any overcoat made of wool broadcloth. However, given the sheer number of men in Ottoman art who wear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/garments\/what-did-they-look-like\/robes\/full-length-robe-with-hanging-sleeves\/\">full-length wool overcoats with hanging sleeves<\/a>, the absence of any known term for these coats, and the omnipresence of \u00e7uka in well-to-do people&#8217;s wardrobes, I suspect <em>\u00e7uka<\/em> was the term for the robe with hanging sleeves when it was made of wool broadcloth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the painting of a gentleman&#8217;s son (c. 1625), his black overcoat with hanging sleeves is probably a \u00e7uka .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Literally \u201cwool broadcloth,\u201d a \u00e7uka or \u00e7uha was an overcoat made of, yes, wool broadcloth. Wool broadcloth was a top-quality fabric whose cost could rival that of many silks, a mainstay of any gentleman&#8217;s or lady&#8217;s wardrobe (as well as the winter wear of any less well-to-do person who could\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/garments\/what-were-they-called\/overcoats\/cuka-cuha\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2079,"parent":1979,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,98,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1943","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-final-names","category-garments","category-proper-names"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1943"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2598,"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1943\/revisions\/2598"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}