Zibouni cat.inv.no. 2301a
Gender information of the object:
Type:
Place:
Source:
National Historical Museum
Code:
103
Translator:
Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
Description:
The zibouni is made of cotton alatzia, with brown and blue hecks woven into it. The material of the lower part is dimity with horizontal stripes of green, red, yellow, brown and mustard. The back and front are formed of a single piece of material, with no stitching at the shoulders. The vertical opening at the front has a small oblique panel of material attached all the way up, which flares at the bottom. There are two triangular pieces of alatzia under the arms. The long sleeves are sewn vertically to the body and have an obliquely cut opening at the bottom, lined with striped material that is visible when the sleeve is turned back.
The zibouni is lined with white cotton material woven on the loom and has an inside pocket made of the same material on the left side. The insides of the openings are lined with delicate webbing made of the same alatzia
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, 213.