Inv. No. EE 1678: Doublettin (white pleated skirt worn as a mantle) made of thin white cotton fabric (hases). It consists of one piece of cloth measuring 82 cm. in width, and another two pieces, each 263 cm. wide. Its total width is 6.08 m. Its folds are gathered in dense pleats at the top, where they are covered by a cotton cloth, forming an upright thick "collar". The surface of the latter (4 cm. wide) is decorated with drawn-thread white embroidery featuring an arch pattern on the one side, and continuous lozenges containing smaller ones on the other side. Along the two narrow and the top long sides there is a fringe of small tassels with red, green, pink and honey-coloured glass beads (petroues = small stones) at their base.
The doublettin, a characteristic element of Karpasia’s festive dress, has the peculiar decoration met in local embroideries and costumes. This pleated mantle was worn over the sayia. A second pleated garment, the red-coloured routziettin, was also worn over the back as a mantle, but was mainly used as a skirt in bridal and festive costumes, along with the sarka. The red mantle was worn by young women, while older women wore the doublettin. Few specimens are preserved in museums today, yet the way doublettin was worn can be seen in old photographs (photo of the Benaki Museum Archive no. 30210, and Hadjimichali 1954, pl. 85; see also Papademetriou 1991, 17 fig. 4).
Length of doublettin: 99cm. width of collar: 34 cm.
Hadjimichali 1983, 383 fig. 410, 396 fig. 425; Papantoniou 2000, 175 fig. 237
