Ottoman Empire fashion, circa 1820

In 1867, a man named Grigoriy Sharopenko gave an album of drawings to a young Russian man named Alexander Alexandrovich Romanov — the future Czar Alexander III. It contained images of ceremonial dress from the Ottoman Empire, then in a period of decline. The layers of clothing contained detailed signifiers for the class, religion, and social standing of the wearers — who included the late sultan Mahmud II, officers of his court, military officers, Balkan peasants, and more. The images appear to be copies of illustrations made earlier, around the 1820s.

This embedding is based on 30 images from that album, which is currently held by the New York Public Library. It was cooked for a total of 300 steps on base SD 1.5: 16 vectors per token, a 0.004 learning rate, a batch size of 6, and 5 gradient steps.

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