Yileko inv.no. 2297a
Gender information of the object:
Type:
Place:
Source:
National Historical Museum
Code:
104
Translator:
Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
Description:
The yileko is made of dimity material (alatzia) with coloured horizontal stripes. The material is the same as that of the bottom part of the zibouni inv.no. 2301a, together with which it was worn forming the yilekozibouno combination.
The back and sides are made from the same piece of material, which is sewn to the two front pieces at the sides and shoulders. The two front pieces and in points and cross on eithe side on the breast, leaving a horseshoe-shaped opening. On the right side there is a pocket of the same material.
The yileko is lined with white cotton material. The finishes, stitching and outline of the pocket have five thick brown cotton threads sewn to them. On the front and the two rows of buttons set obliquely. The slit in the back is fastened by similar threads cross-laced through loops
Bibliography:
Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou, E. 1999: ‘Cypriot Costume at the End of the Nineteenth Century’, In Cypriot Costumes in the National Historical Museum. The World of Cyprus at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century. Athens, 214.
