Embroidered piece of cloth for girdle no. 113

A long and broad piece of cloth made of woven cotton in ivory/cream colour with embroidery on the extremities of both narrow sides. The decoration consists of four (on one side three and a half) groups, each comprising three rows of three cypress trees in oblique arrangement, forming a square. The last group comprises three rows of two trees. Below each group is a series of six stylized floral patterns in a rectangular frame. The last group is made of five patterns. The trees are embroidered with coloured threads in various combinations of yellow, orange, red, lilac, mauve and pink; the stems green. The same colours are used for the decoration on the lower part, in different order and combination. One long side has a loom-woven selvedge (kenar), while the other long side, as well as the narrow ends, were simply cut with no special finishing. It should be noted that between each group of patterns there is a line made by removing a couple of threads. These lines marked the point where the cloth was intended to be cut lengthwise in order to make four separate girdles (uçkur/uşgur) out of it. This type of girdle had to be narrow, because it passed through the hem of the drawers or underwear. Since only the ends were visible, decoration was only applied on them. This example clearly shows that the girdles were first made in one piece and then cut. Its length is 2.02m and the total width 72cm. According to the marking shown by the drawn threads, they intended to make four separate girdles having a width of 20cm, 20cm, 18cm and 14cm respectively.