Embroidered piece of cloth for girdle no. 104

Embroidered piece of cloth made of off-white cotton fabric, with a loom-woven selvedge (kenar) on one long side and the other three edges. The two narrow ends are decorated with three groups of similar flower patterns. Each group comprises a three-stemmed branch with leaves and blossoms on top. The central stem rests on a thick embroidered line, forming the ground, which has three short vertical lines on one side of the stem, and four on the other side. Below it is a zigzag line; the short lines and the zigzag are embroidered with mauve thread, while the stem and the ground line in pale yellow. The flowers are mauve, lilac and light green. Green is also used in two leaves of one design. The other two patterns are exactly the same, also in colours, but differ from the first one in the colour combination: the central flower is again lilac, but the two on either side of it are blue and the leaves pink. The lines on the ground are repeated exactly the same, and below each of the patterns there are three embroidered dots, two of them yellow and the one in the middle mauve. Similar patterns and colour combinations adorn the other narrow end. The flower patterns are made with filling stitch (dolgu işi), the linear motifs with backstitch (iğne ardı). Between the patterns two threads have been drawn for a length of 15cm, to mark the intended cutting of the cloth lengthwise, in order to make three similar girdles (uçkur/uşgur). Total width: 37cm; width of each division: 12.5cm, 12.5cm and 12cm, respectively. Length: 2.10m.