In a study of folk textiles of Anatolia, Greece, Linda Welters identifies the "zonari" as a long fringed belt constructed of sprang. The "zonari" is a rounded material of indeterminate length around 2 or 3 meters long and is wrapped multiple times when worn. From interviews conducted during the 1980s, Welters found that the technique was practiced by elderly women and regarded as a specialized skill which they worked on pairs of beams. Their vocabulary had no special term to correspond with sprang, so they referred to it with descriptive phrases such as "knitting with sticks", "plaiting", and "weaving without passing through". The "zonari" are made from sheep's wool hand spun with a drop spindle and dyed red, blue, or black depending on local custom. "Zonari" belts are a custom in much of Argolida and Corinthia where they are traditional dowry items worn by women from marriage onward and associated with fertility and donned on ritual occasions. Welters observes that these were mostly owned and worn by older women.