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node: fashion_timurid
type: fashion
slug: timurid_empire_fashion
title: "Fashion in the Timurid Empire"
lead: "In the Timurid period Persian miniature painting flowered and vividly recorded court dress: long robes (jama), sashes and turbans, painted with grace by the Herat school."
published: 2026-07-28
updated: 2026-07-28
image_file: timurid_empire_fashion.jpg
image_source: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Timur_seated_(earliest_known_portrait),_Timurid_genealogy,_1405-1409,_Samarkand_(TSMK,_H2152).jpg"
image_author: "Timurid genealogy manuscript (1405–1409)"
image_license: "Public domain"
change: "Created as a fashion sub-page under the history section, with a period image (iran region)"
requester: internal
reason: "Per the owner's decision, fashion lives under each history era"
---

## Overview

At the Timurid court, miniature painting, textiles and calligraphy developed highly, and dress reached a peak of refinement.

## Key garments and style

People belted a long, close-fitting robe (jama) and wound a turban, in fine silk worked with delicate pattern in weave and embroidery. Masters of the miniature such as Bihzad painted this court dress in exquisite detail.

## Transition

With the rise of the Safavids, a distinctive turban wound on a red baton (the taj) came to mark the court.