Description

Buckles and kiustekia were intended as headpieces but also as waistpieces. The buckles, worked with all the techniques (cast, forged, filigree, savat, gilded), and often with their combinations, held together, feminized, the two facing openings of the clothes (the women's skirt, the man's waistcoat, etc. ) or were attached to the cloth waist belt and completed its function. We find them in small forms, as locks (thelikotaria or chaprakia or zavas or pavtes - the names were related to their size), but also as huge archways, richly decorated (their surface caused the decorative mood) with birds, double-headed eagles, plant motifs, flowers , roses, branches, leaves, or even strict geometric themes, spirals, crosses, and even with red, ruby or green stones. In Pogoni, the newlyweds wore for a short time, on the big festive days, the silver or gold-plated big arch, which first marked the passport fact of her marriage, and then she took it off.