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The Tarkhan Dress, named for the Tarkhan cemetery south of Cairo in Egypt where it was excavated in 1913, is an over 5000 year old linen garment that was confirmed as the world's oldest piece of woven clothing. [2] [1] The dress coded UC28614B is currently in the collection of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. [3]
The earliest form of pleated linen dates from ancient Egypt and can be seen in a garment known as the Tarkhan dress, which is over 5000 years old and is believed to be one of the oldest dresses in existence. [1] Other examples of pleated linen from ancient history include pleated linen from the tomb of queen Neferu. [2]
There are significant holdings of Egyptian costume, including a piece of Egyptian linen from around 5000 BC, one of the earliest known, [21] and the Tarkhan dress from the fourth millennium BC, the world's oldest known woven garment as of 2016. [22] The collection also includes material from the Ptolemaic, Roman and Islamic periods. [23]
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Tarkhan is an ancient Egyptian necropolis, located around 50 km south of Cairo on the west bank of the Nile. The cemetery was excavated in two seasons by Flinders Petrie . Tombs of almost all periods were found, but most importantly many belonging to the time of Egyptian state formation, the Early Dynastic period around 3100 BC.
Velvet, silk, satin, smoking (a corded rayon), synthetics, and polyester knits are also used, but more expensive. The typical folk dress takes 4 1/2–5 meters of 80–90 cm wide fabric. Many tailors have a standard dress style they make, with more skilled tailors making variations on it. [38]
Acknowledging the product’s unchanged branding in 2006, Guinness World Records noted that the only alterations made since 1885 were “slight technical changes during the war due to shortages of ...
Clothing reformers later in the 19th century AD admired ancient Greek dress because they thought it represented timeless beauty, the opposite of complicated and rapidly changing fashions of their time, as well as the more practical reasoning that Grecian-style dresses required far less cloth than those of the Rococo period.