Paçalık

Paçalık embroidery from Aydin province, c. AD 1900. Paçalık embroidery from Aydin province, c. AD 1900.

In the Ottoman world, the paçalık was the name of the embroidered dress worn by the bride the day after her wedding. It was also the name for a piece of embroidered cloth (always worked in a pair), sewn onto the legs of a woman's underpants.

See also the entry on a Turkish postage stamp with a depiction of paçalık embroidery.

Digital source (retrieved 3 January 2017)

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