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Museum Week in Georgia: Georgian Costume and Weaponry of 18-20th Centuries - the costumes





The Museum of Georgia is holding the exhibition "Georgian Costume and Weaponry of 18-20th Centuries" from 18 May to 18 November 2017. It commenced on 18 May to mark Museum Week dedicated to the International Museum Day.

The exhibition displays women’s and men’s costumes, showing the diversity of Georgian clothing, with their different materials, colours, decorations, and ornaments. Weaponry worn on the body shows the Georgian-Caucasian techniques from the mountains and plains of Eastern, South-Western and Western Georgia. Along with the garments, the exhibition also showcases jewelry and household items - furniture, musical instruments, family vessels, a horse harness, and many other objects. 

The Royal dress of King Teimuraz II; Nino Gurieli's Georgian dress; Tekla Batonishvili's personal sewing machine; the robe of Alexander Bariatinsky - Deputy of the Caucasus; the Tambourine painted by Mihaly Zichy; and the traditional dresses of Abkhazian and Ingilo women – these are just some of the exhibits on display. 



Since 1810 in Kartli and Kakheti men wore a tunic belted with cloth, skin or precious metal. He generally wore a fur or felt hat. Women wore pleated dresses, called Gujastiani, because they were fastened with a special clasp (Gujasta). The Gujastiani was replaced with a ‘breastplate’ (bodiced) dress with elaborate embroidery. Both men and women wore socks, leggings, summer shoes, ankle-high shoes, slippers, or boots.

European dress was introduced in Georgia in the first half of the 19th century, particularly due to the trade relations with Russia and Europe. In Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, French fashion was preferred, especially hats, bonnets, gloves, coats, walking canes, fans, umbrellas/parasols, and crinolines. Instead of socks, fashionable women began wearing stockings and lace-up ankle boots.

























European dress was introduced in Georgia in the first half of the 19th century, particularly due to the trade relations with Russia and Europe. In Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, French fashion was preferred, especially hats, bonnets, gloves, coats, walking canes, fans, umbrellas/parasols, and crinolines. Instead of socks, fashionable women began wearing stockings and lace-up ankle boots.
















MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the author of:- The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).


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