{"id":1725,"date":"2018-01-19T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T19:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/?p=1725"},"modified":"2018-01-19T14:27:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T19:27:00","slug":"aba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/visual-dictionary\/aba\/","title":{"rendered":"Aba"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1385\" style=\"width: 483px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Lebanese-Bedouin-Sheik.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1385\" class=\"wp-image-1385 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Lebanese-Bedouin-Sheik.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Lebanese-Bedouin-Sheik.jpg 473w, https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Lebanese-Bedouin-Sheik-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Lebanese-Bedouin-Sheik-111x150.jpg 111w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1385\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This 19th-century Lebanese sheik is wearing an aba, which is probably made of aba cloth.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1392\" style=\"width: 308px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mevlevi-dervish-The-Habits-of-the-Grand-Signors-Court.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1392\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1392\" src=\"http:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mevlevi-dervish-The-Habits-of-the-Grand-Signors-Court.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mevlevi-dervish-The-Habits-of-the-Grand-Signors-Court.png 298w, https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mevlevi-dervish-The-Habits-of-the-Grand-Signors-Court-146x300.png 146w, https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mevlevi-dervish-The-Habits-of-the-Grand-Signors-Court-73x150.png 73w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Mevlevi dervish wearing a red garment that may be an aba<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A type of coarse wool cloth popular for making warm, hard-wearing garments like overcoats and men&#8217;s trousers. Aba was inferior to wool broadcloth (\u00e7uka or\u00a0\u00e7uha), but also more affordable. As a result, it was mostly a working-class fabric.<\/p>\n<p>The aba was also an Arab garment shaped like a poncho with a slit down the front and stitching up the sides to the wrist. It almost never appears in period drawings&#8211;the one possible exception is on this page&#8211;but it shows up in estate records and descriptions of escaped slaves as a workingman&#8217;s overcoat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A type of coarse wool cloth popular for making warm, hard-wearing garments like overcoats and men&#8217;s trousers. Aba was inferior to wool broadcloth (\u00e7uka or\u00a0\u00e7uha), but also more affordable. As a result, it was mostly a working-class fabric. The aba was also an Arab garment shaped like a poncho with\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/visual-dictionary\/aba\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[91,95],"class_list":["post-1725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-visual-dictionary","tag-clothing","tag-textiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1726,"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions\/1726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}