sash-end

Updated: June 25, 2025

Here, especially on Fridays, the women's day, Jewesses congregate, flocking along the cemetery road the mourners in ponderous black skirts, vast breadths of crimson silk let into the fronts and embroidered with gold, white shawls over head and forehead, a yellow sash-end edged with red appearing behind, and completing their mourning.

Isabel Savory - In the Tail of the Peacock