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Kontusz belt, flower bushes ornament, flower bouquets ornament, bilateral belts, plant ornaments, Polish belts, Polish costumes, kontusz belts, belts, signatures, clothing accessories, men's accessories, fashion accessories, men's clothing accessories. Bipartite heads with motifs of elongated flower bouquets surrounded by a winding ribbon. Still smooth, single-colored. Border with a floral tendril pattern. Colors: light straw, cream-silver, dark olive, sky blue, pink and brown-plum. At the bottom of one of the heads, a preserved signature: BAREZ. 2nd half of the 18th century, Barysh Ukraine — national costume, clothing accessory. Length 297 cm, width 34.5 cm., A rectangular woven textile with a pale yellow background and a narrow dark brown border, decorated with a symmetrical repeating floral design in muted pink, olive green, gray, and brown. Two large vertical medallions run side by side, each framed by scalloped gray bands and filled with stylized flowers including rounded blossoms, elongated leaves, and layered central blooms in pink and brown with olive green foliage. A narrow decorative band with curving olive green ribbon motifs and small floral clusters in pink and gray runs along the top and bottom edges, and slender floral vine borders appear along the sides. The fabric shows subtle horizontal weave texture and slight variations in the pale yellow ground.

Credit line

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Reference

LZT26A14_141

License type

Rights managed

Available size

90.9Mb (16.2Mb) / 17.7in x 20.0in / 5297 x 6000 (300dpi)

Keywords

Kontusz belt flower bushes ornament flower bouquets ornament bilateral belts plant ornaments Polish belts Polish costumes kontusz belts belts signatures clothing accessories men's accessories fashion accessories men's clothing accessories Bipartite heads motifs elongated flower bouquets surrounded winding ribbon smooth single-colored Border floral tendril pattern Colors light straw cream-silver dark olive sky blue pink brown-plum bottom heads preserved signature Barez 2nd half 18th century Barysh Ukraine national costume clothing accessory Length 297 cm width 34.5 cm rectangular woven textile pale yellow background narrow dark brown border decorated symmetrical repeating floral design muted pink olive green gray brown Two large vertical medallions run side framed scalloped gray bands filled stylized flowers rounded blossoms elongated leaves layered central blooms olive green foliage narrow decorative band curving olive green ribbon motifs small floral clusters gray runs top bottom edges slender floral vine borders sides fabric subtle horizontal weave texture slight variations pale yellow ground.