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The kira (Dzongkha: དཀྱི་ར་, དཀྱིས་རས་, romanized: dkyi-ra, dkyis-ras) [1] is the national dress for women in Bhutan. It is an ankle-length dress consisting of a rectangular piece of woven fabric.
Bhutanese women wearing kira with tego. A toego or tego (Dzongkha: སྟོད་གོ་, Wylie: stod go; also romanised tögo) is a long-sleeved, short jacket-like garment worn over a kira by women in Bhutan.
The gho or g'ô (Dzongkha: བགོ་, Dzongkha pronunciation:) [1] is the traditional and national dress for men in Bhutan. Introduced in the 17th century by Ngawang Namgyal , 1st Zhabdrung Rinpoche , to give the Ngalop people a more distinctive identity, it is a knee-length robe tied at the waist by a cloth belt known as the kera ( Dzongkha ...
Bhutan, [a] officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, [b] [14] (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ; Wylie: 'Druk gyal khab) is a landlocked country in South Asia, situated in the Eastern Himalayas between the Tibet Autonomous Region of China in the north and India in the south, with the Indian state of Sikkim separating it from neighbouring Nepal.
A wonju (Dzongkha: འོན་འཇུ་; Wylie: 'on-'ju) [1] is a long-sleeved blouse worn by women in Bhutan. Made of silk, polyester, or lightweight cotton, it is worn underneath the Kira , part of the national costume under the driglam namzha .
Most houses in Bhutan have religious and other symbolic motifs painted inside their houses and also on the external walls. [2] Sculptures. The art of making religious sculptures is unique in Bhutan and hence very popular in the Himalayan region. The basic material used for making the sculptures is clay, which is known as jinzob. The clay ...
She is the Royal Patron of the Bhutan Textile Museum and the Chairman of the Royal Textile Academy of Bhutan (RTAB). A Bhutanese textile Today Bhutanese textiles have reached new heights of dynamism and respect; they are valued not only for their economic viability, but also as a symbol of Bhutan's artistic heritage that commands world ...
The National Symbols of Bhutan include the national flag, national emblem, national anthem, and the mythical druk thunder featured in all three. Other distinctive symbols of Bhutan and its dominant Ngalop culture include Dzongkha, the national language; the Bhutanese monarchy; and the Driglam Namzha, a seventeenth-century code on dress, etiquette, and dzong architecture.