Moorish women: Accessories

Headwear

Sabaniyya: rectangular veil 

  • From Nasrid East 

  • Silk, linen, or wool

  •  tied at the back with a knot called 'isaba

Rollo: roll over veil

  • filled with rags or cotton 

  • tied with a cord (almaizar)

  • jeweled with gold or silver earrings

Jewelry

Arracadas (earrings): 

  • crescent-shaped 

  • thick earrings 

  • pearls 

  • precious stones 

  • Gold (upper classes) and silver (lower classes)

  •  Islamic motifs: Hands of Fatima, Half Moons and charitable or even Koranic inscriptions in Arabic

Bracelets

  • gold or silver

  • bangle-style

  • worn singly or in pairs

henna

The Moorish women in family festivities (weddings, baptisms, etc...) used henna, that is, they tattooed themselves with henna, after going to the baths. This also ended up being prohibited by the ecclesiastical authorities for thinking that they were Islamizing. (Villagra)

Tikka

Sarāwīl ties made from silk or linen

  • Often given as favors to men

  • Could be studded with jewels or soaked in perfume

Trabaq (hosen)

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  1. H. 1490-1500. Birth of the Virgin, Master of Arévalo, Arévalo, Ávila (detail )

shoes

Alcorques

shoe with a cork sole and a leather bridge

Rihiyya

soft leather soled shoes

Chopines: a platform-type shoe 

  • Wood or thick cork soles 

  • Leather upper and  laces 

  • Brocade uppers

  • Embroidered

  • jeweled 

  • Possibly they were born as an Andalusian influence as bath shoes and were assimilated by the Christians as early as the 12th century, so their use was already traditionally secular (Villagra)

Jufáf: ankle boots

Khuff: thigh or calf height leather boots with curled toes; sometimes with gold stamped decorations

Qabqab: sandal with wooden sole