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Update: I regret that I had to remove the photos from Flickr for copyright issues. You can still view the photos and more here: http://www.palestinecostumearchive.org/

A sample of Costumes from my homeland – Palestine. A photo collection I gathered from the net can be viewed here.
Click on photo for a large view.

Child's quilt 1991, showing contemporary use of the Palestinian heremezy appliqu� technique (Palestine Costume Archive, Canberra)

Palestinian child's quilt

Bethlehem wedding jacket taqsireh 1930's-1940's

Bethlehem wedding jacket

Bethlehem headdress shatweh, c1920's (Tareq Rajab Museum, Kuwait) Qabbeh from Bethlehem thob malak abu wardeh 1940's (Tareq Rajab Museum, Kuwait - Lady Gloria Dale Collection, 1994)

A sample of the type of traditional embroidery with modern colouring produced by In'ash El Usra

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Posted by Haitham Sabbah on Monday, May 16, 2005, at 10:23 pm. Filed under Art, Culture, Palestine, Photos, Regional. Tagged , , , , , , , , , . Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. Comments are closed, but you can trackback from your blog.

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  1. Eman | May 17, 2005 at 9:35 am | Permalink

    Haitham, this is simply BEAUTIFUL!
    As usual, great job. I was collecting similar stuff for a while to post about, but your collection turned out a lot better than mine :P Anyway, I'll keep collecting and your photos in the Palestine Photo Group will be a great reference :)

  2. Roba | May 17, 2005 at 11:54 am | Permalink

    I agree with Eman. It's wonderful! I absolutely love tatreez, its one of my favorite things about our culture. Thanks a lot for sharing!

  3. Haitham | May 17, 2005 at 7:00 pm | Permalink

    Dear Eman and Roba, both of you are members of ‘Palestine Photo Group’, so all what you need to do is upload the photos that you have to your Flickr account, then share it with ‘Palestine Photo Group’.
    Of course the more the better. So all are welcome to add more.

    Looking forward to see your collection, Eman :-)

  4. sume | May 17, 2005 at 7:19 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for the invitation, Haitham. What a great idea. Looks like the photo pool is coming along nicely.

  5. Haitham | May 17, 2005 at 8:42 pm | Permalink

    You are welcome, Sume.

    The members of ‘Palestine Photo Group’ doubled since this post, and the photo pool is also booming up. Pray for more :-D

  6. Lina | May 17, 2005 at 11:39 pm | Permalink

    One of my wild dreams was to start a fashion business that can incorporate this BEAUTIFUL art of traditional costumes into contemporary clothing! We're missing out on a lot by not embracing this art and showing it as part of our everyday image!

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