Waist girdle no. 110

Waist girdle (uçkur/uşgur) made of cotton cloth, with hand embroidery on both narrow ends. The decoration consists of five groups of patterns, each comprising four long stems with branches in different colours; from right to left, the motifs are purple, bluish-mauve, light green, then again purple and bright blue. Through the middle of each group runs a horizontal zigzag line embroidered with thin gold metal wire (tel). The other end is decorated with the same patterns in corresponding colours. The edge of one long side is formed by a loom-woven selvedge (kenar), while the other side is simply cut. Probably, it was intended to make five long and narrow girdles out of this piece. This is indicated by a pencil line, which separates each group, marking the strips which would form separate girdles. Width: 38cm. Length: 1.53m.