Woman’s traditional festive ‘arkalık’ (waist cloth, generally worn on the backside), from Sille (near Konya), Turkish, ca. 1925.  Blue silk, adorned with silk embroideries and sequins (both metallic and mica).  Possibly an older piece of Rum (Anatolian Greek) origin.   Until 1922-24 the village was inhabited by Rum people; after they left the village (population exchange of 1922), the new Turkish inhabitants adopted some parts of the former traditional Greek costumes. (Source: Antika Osmanlı…