A SUPERB LINEN SASH

The costumes depicted here seem to be comparable to, for example, 17th century prints, such as the one illustrated on page 41, Court & Conquest, taken from a 19th century print of a 17th century engraving of a 'Demoiselle Turque' in turn taken from Nicolas de Nicolay's Navigations.

It is interesting to look too at pages 100-101, Embroidery of the Greek Islands and Epirus Region by Sumur Belger Krody, Textile Museum, 2006, which illustrates several examples of embroidered figures in frogged robes. Although the embroidery techniques are quite different, it may be that the design vocabulary of this part of the Ottoman Empire are showing (in chiarascura) in this sophisticated urban embroidery.