A cap band was often made of a different material and trimmed with braid jiyek and pompon of silk threads attached to it. Another common form was a scullcap with a flat, low crown with wide cap band.
Old men wore a scullcap under kurash. Scullcaps of homespun materials called tokima-tahia, plush – mahpal-tahia. Sometimes scullcaps were decorated with traditional ornament keste-tahia (embroidered), characterized the inhabitants of the steppe. Young people wore scullcaps of blue and green colors, the elderly and children – white, youth and children’s were decorated with embroidery.
You will find more examples of national Uzbek clothes in the book-album "Traditional Uzbek costume on materials of museum and private collections of Uzbekistan (Part 2)" (volume XLIX) from the series "Cultural legacy of Uzbekistan in the world collections".
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