The Turban

Chris Filstrup, Jane Merrill

The Turban
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 June 2025
Pages
264
ISBN
9781836390749

The Turban

Chris Filstrup, Jane Merrill

A turban is a strip of cloth folded and wrapped around the head; however, this description includes multifarious forms across space and time. This book follows the turban as it moves from the Arabian Peninsula through the Ottoman Empire to Europe and the Americas. It directs the reader's gaze from traditional and religious uses of the turban into the realms of international trade, Renaissance art and contemporary fashions. Turbans, as this book shows, have moved in and out of Western culture, at times considered archaic and forgotten, then noticed and reinstated as major accessories. Today Sikh men are recognized by their distinctive headwraps, and the turban remains an important part of Black culture. This book explores the turban's many adaptations worldwide.

'I'm impressed by the scope of this study, from the turban as a marker of religious a liation to a prop for Rembrandt to a distinctive fashion for women. Headgear off to Filstrup and Merrill.' Gay Talese, journalist and author

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