Katzeb
{{short description|Kind of sash}}
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Katzeb (kamarband, Kayabandh, Cummerbund) was an article of dress encircling the body, at the waist with ends hanging in the front. It was a kind of sash also called patka.
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Flora and Fauna in Mughal Art
Som Prakash Verma · 1999
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Name
Katzeb is a compound word. The Sanskrit word Kati means waist, and Zeb in Persian means adorn. Mughals wore it over the Jama (coat). The Katzeb is a girdle named by the third Mughal emperor Akbar who was very fashion enthusiastic and gave a new name to many contemporary costumes. These are described in Ain-i-Akbari by Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak.{{Cite book|last=Condra|first=Jill|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S8bTzilz1BMC&q=Some+of+the+most+complex+textiles+ever+made+were+producers+during+a+fifty+year+period+from+the+late+seventeenth+century+into+the+early+eighteenth+century+during+the+reign+of+Aurangzeb.&pg=PA212|title=The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Clothing Through World History: 1501-1800|date=2008|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-33664-5|location=|pages=212, 211|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Definition of GIRDLE|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/girdle|access-date=2021-01-08|website=www.merriam-webster.com|language=en}}A. Fazal, Ain-i-Akbari, vol. 1, p. 96{{Cite book|last=Verma|first=Som Prakash|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RVVXAAAAMAAJ&q=Katzeb+akbar|title=Art and Material Culture in the Paintings of Akbar's Court|date=1978|publisher=Vikas|isbn=978-0-7069-0595-3|location=|pages=51, 46, 47|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Ibn-Mubārak|first=Abu-'l-Faḍl|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rrh95CUbFJcC|title="The" Ain i Akbari : 1|date=1873|publisher=|isbn=|location=|pages=90|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Sharma|first=Monika|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rwjQBQAAQBAJ|title=Socio-Cultural Life of Merchants in Mughal Gujarat|date=2014-12-03|publisher=Partridge Publishing|isbn=978-1-4828-4036-0|language=en}}
Court costume
Katzeb was a small rectangular piece of cloth but it was an essential garment of the dress that includes a jama (a coat), shawl, turban tanzeb (trouser). There are many Mughal paintings of the emperors with a sword or dagger tucked in Katzeb.{{Cite book|last=Verma|first=Som Prakash|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b__VAAAAMAAJ|title=Painting the Mughal Experience|date=2005|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-566756-1|location=|pages=59|language=en}}{{Cite journal|last=Houghteling|first=Sylvia|date=2017|title=The Emperor's Humbler Clothes: Textures of Courtly Dress in Seventeenth-century South Asia|journal=Ars Orientalis|volume=47|issue=20191029|doi=10.3998/ars.13441566.0047.005|hdl=2027/spo.13441566.0047.005|issn=2328-1286|doi-access=free|url=https://repository.brynmawr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1084&context=hart_pubs}}