Yileko inv. no. 2299a
Gender information of the object:
Type:
Place:
Source:
National Historical Museum
Code:
98
Translator:
Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
Description:
The yileko is made of striped white cotton alatzia. The back and the front are made of a single piece of material, with no stitching at the shoulders. There is a vertical opening at the front.
At the sides, a vertical strip with weaving stripes placed horozontally, in the oposite direction to the back and front, is sewn beneath the arm with routzela stitch. The sides have slits at the bottom.
The yileko is lind with bleached cotton material.
The entire breast, on both sides of the opening, is completely covered with attached patterns worked in silk brisimi and green and red threaded patrou(d)es, and the back has a similar triangular pattern ending in spiral. The vertical opening has a row of loops of braided brisimi, with beads of various colours used for the buttons.
The yileko is made of the same materials and has the same style of decoration as the sarka inv.no 2299.
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, 205.