scarf
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Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
Petroula Hadjittofi
Description:
Inv. No. 2569: Square scarf made of silk and decorated with the tie-dye technique. The design, although similar to the one of no. 2570 of the Benaki Collection, is better defined and features brighter colours: white, blue, red, crimson, green and yellow. Two of the scarf’s sides end in a hem, while tassels in the crimson colour of the background decorate the other two sides. Dimensions: 74x74 cm. Publication Hadjimichali 1983, 395, fig. 424.
Bibliography:
Ριζοπούλου-Ηγουμενίδου, Ε. 2010: Η Κυπριακή Εθνογραφική Συλλογή του Μουσείου Μπενάκη, Αθήνα, p. 108, no. 75 I