Yileko inv.no. 2308
Gender information of the object:
Type:
Place:
Source:
National Historical Museum
Code:
102
Translator:
Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
Description:
The yileko is made of red felt. The back is made of a single piece, and the front consists of two pieces that cross either side and are fastened vertically by three braided buttons gold thread.
There is a button sewn on each side below the round opening at the neck, and a pocket on the right side.
The joins, the outline of the pocket, and the hems of the openings are decorated with gaitania of metallic thread, an attached gold-woven band with garlands of branches and flowers made of tirtiri woven into it, and gold twisted braids, all forming a variety of volute patterns.
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, 212.