Yileko inv.no. 2297b
Gender information of the object:
Type:
Place:
Source:
National Historical Museum
Code:
105
Translator:
Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
Description:
The sleeveless male yileko is made of blue felt. The back consists of a single piece of material and the front of two pieces, leaving a round opening at the neck.
The outside of the yileko is decorated with a variety of patterns worked in silk and silver gaitania, silver garlands, and twisted silver braids. The yileko crosses either side, with four woven silk buttons and four loops, and the neck there is a button on each side woven of silver-thread with a red bead at the top. The front panels have two decorative pockets of semi-circular cut adorned with silver gaitania and twisted braid worked in delicate patterns.
The yileko is lined with white cotton material and is trimmed around with a band of blue felt.
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, 215.