Yileko inv.no. 2297
Gender information of the object:
Type:
Place:
Source:
National Historical Museum
Code:
99
Translator:
Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
Description:
The yileko is made of checked cotton material in red, blue and green. The back is made of a single piece of material, and has a vertical slit with loops made of a red gaitani, through which a braid is laced to fasten it.
The pieces at the front cross either side, with ten white buttons set obliquenly, and form a triangular opening at the neck. The yileko fastens by means of brown threads forming series of loops.
The entire yileko is decorated with sequins, woolen threads, multi-coloured braids, gaitania and seiritia, worked into vegetal and floral patterns. On the right side of the front this decoration is supplemented by a pocket of yellow silk material, with a female figure worked in braids, wool and sequins.
The inside of the yileko is lined with white cotton material.
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.