| Legend to the illustrations: Greek women strove for great variety of hairstyles and tried every possible venue to to make their headgear to stand out. To accomplish this goal, they utilized various typed of veil, light or heavy, bands of different colors, gold, precious stones, flowers and various perfumes. (the figure in the upper left corner is no. 1) : A nimbus was a linen band embroidered with gold and it was usually wrapped around the hair, on the other hand, a sphendone was a band used to support the hair, the hair-net was called cecryphale. Fig. 4,6,8,17,21,22,23 illustrate their usage. No. 14 is a simpler application. The hair-net that was tied in the back, is depicted in 6,17 and 21; Athenians called it cecryphale, Romans called it reticulum. To hold and maintain the hair in proper order, Greek women used vecisa, as depicted in 13,26 and also in 25. The woman in no. 10 has a bonnet embellished with a ring of pearls. Fig. 16 represents a young Greek woman wearing a hair-net that is transformed in a sac or hood in the back of her head. This type of headgear was also found depicted on Etruscan vases. The woman in 9 wears a felt hat called petase as a protection against sun rays and rain. Fig. 5 depicts a fancy headgear with the hair tied into a knot on one side of the head. In fig. 24 we see a type of the headgear that was still in use in the countryside of Greece in the 19th century. Some women used a loosely falling veil tied in the back, as depicted in fig. 27, or tied back up several times as in 28. Print Specifics:
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