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Of al the tepeliks i have seen, all those with dangles have them attached to the very rim!
This one is stunning, maybe because of those embossed/stamped elements dangling, a great change from the usual coins!
i cant see any attaching system on the back, does it mean that tepeliks were just standing on the scarves/hat without any hooking? maybe tightned with an additional on top of all scarf?
thanx for posting
@ Alaa eddine: Having some experience with the 'village way' of fastening large headgears in the Anatolia-Kurdistan area, I think that women chose/choose the most easy techniques. In this case: a few head/hat pins with large enough 'button', stuck through the upper (circular) ring of the dangles. I wouldn't even be surprised to see safety pins used, if no hat pins were available. We once bought a headgear in Hakkari town (in 1988), directly from the women who wore it, that consisted of a hat with long imitation hair + a large and heavy black silk headscarf edged with tens of colourful silk tassels, which was attached to the hat. Later, in the hotel, when we untied the headgear to fit its components into our luggage, we discovered that the scarf was attached to (and draped around) the hat, by using more than 25 large safety pins... The system is not very 'artistic', but effective and generally well hidden. With kind regards, JM.