From beneath, pendants with leaves were attached to them, hence the name of the decoration. The tilla-qosh (gold eyebrows) were a luxury; it comprised a tiara shaped like a unibrow and an elaborate wreath in the top part, decorated with turquoise. These were women’s decorations, but gradually became items worn by girls in Tashkent during holidays. In the ‘10s of the 20th century, jewelry started to gradually disappear from daily wear to give way to large silk headscarves, gijim rumol, with tassels that did not go well with forehead decorations.
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 1)" (volume XLVIII) from the series "Cultural legacy of Uzbekistan in the world collections."
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