Blocking of fezzes in a workshop in Nicosia
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394
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Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
Description:
A fez workshop in Nicosia, depicted by Oulevay in the 1890s shows a craftsman, dressed in western-style costume and fez, blocking a fez with a mould; more moulds are placed on the same table and other examples are hanging on the wall (Deschamps 1897, III, fig. 171; Deschamps 1898, 51).
Bibliography:
Deschamps, E. 1897: ‘Quinze mois à l’île de Chypre,’ Le Tour du Monde, Journal des Voyages et des Voyageurs, Nouvelle Série – 3e Année, Paris.
Deschamps, E. 1898: Au pays d’Aphrodite, Chypre. Carnet d’un Voyageur, Paris. Dixon, H. 1879: British Cyprus, London.
Deschamps, Ε. (1897) 2005: Στην Κύπρο τη χώρα της Αφροδίτης: Από το ημερολόγιο ενός ταξιδιώτη, Λευκωσία: Πολιτιστικό Κέντρο Ομίλου Λαϊκής.
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It is worth noting that, in addition to imported caps, by the end of the 19th century, if not earlier, workshops were established in Cyprus for making or shaping fezzes.
In Cyprus, as elsewhere, the fez as the head-cover imposed by Mahmud, was first adopted in the urban centres, and primarily by the upper classes who wore it in com¬bination with west European, ‘Frankish’ dress.