Belt
Europeana Fashion — National Museum of World Cultures Foundation

Belt

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Fashion Illustration
CC0 — Public Domain
Europeana Fashion — National Museum of World Cultures Foundation

Embroidered belt, wool on canvas. The belt is fastened with a metal buckle. On the inside the belt is lined with a double piece of beige linen and also a piece of blue linen. At the front, on both sides of the closure, the double lining is left open so that the belt has two inner pockets. The embroidered canvas is sewn to the lining with a sewing machine stitch. The following colours of wool are used in the embroidery: black, red, green, yellow and pink. Black is used for the background. The borders are made of green triangles and within them are red triangles. The belt is embroidered symmetrically left and right of the middle back line. A diamond shaped figure is embroidered in the middle back, in the colours yellow, red, green and pink. On both sides of it a large oval shaped leaf. Next to it a flower in the colors green, red, yellow and pink. Next a bird with yellow legs and a yellow beak. On the other side of the bird the same flower as last mentioned. Then follows another model flower in the colors green, pink and red. The flowers are connected by means of green twigs. To attach the buckle, a cover is made on which a third model of flower is embroidered in the colors yellow, red and pink and with green sprigs.\ The sabok is used to tie the sarong or komprang (wide pants) around the waist.

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