The journey to complete the dress begins by choosing the perfect fabric, usually of the luxurious type. Then the embroidery pattern is taken from the surrounding environment of the region or a decorative painting.
It means the nymph of the purple or scarlet colour, which the Canaanites manufactured and were even famous for. Palestinian cities are distinguished by their dresses, as it often reflects the class and social status of women. The dresses in Jericho is one of the oldest Palestinian dresses. This garment is characterized by the longitudinal lines and decorations that are related to the fossil monuments found in the city.
Historically, the women folk used to wear this dress when presenting gifts to the Pharaohs and at important social events. When one wears this dress, it feels like holding onto a long journey of struggle to make a beautiful piece of history.
Each of the shapes in the dress, tells a story of the women who weaved the dress. Each dress has a unique shape which is tells a story of Palestinian cities. A rock for Jerusalem, a red flower for Ramallah city, orange and apple trees for Jaffa, branches and papers of the trees for Hebron, large-sized engineering units for Gaza, watches shape for Bethlehem, pictures and flowers shapes for Beersheba and a camel for Jenin.
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The Palestinian dress is the most vital thing that the ancestors left for us. So, we have to protect it, for it is the one that paints the complete picture of the homeland, its heritage and civilization over the generations. With the uptake of the Turkish qumbaz the looser Turkish style of pants were also adopted.
Bedouin women in the north, by contrast wore a blue or black thobe or shirsh with long tight sleeves and a long neck opening. Decoration includes embroidery along the seams, above the hem and around the neck or four or five horizontal lines embroidered bands above the hem.
This style is similar to villages in Syria and northern Jordon. More on Bedouin women. There is also a tradition of rich trousseau and festive dresses. The chest panel qabbeh is a distinctive feature of Palestinian and Syrian dresses.
Southern Bedouin women wore a similar shaped, but more voluminous, light blue or black dress thobe with winged sleeves.
These sleeves narrowed by the s. From the s they also included cross stitched embroidery but in a different style to the villagers. The embroidery is usally red for women and blue for unmarried girls. Brightly coloured and patterned dresses fustan were worn under the overdresses. Some of these thobes - especially around Jericho - were more than twice the length of a person and was hitched up to creating three layers and the sleeve used as a veil. Here is a clip of a women wrapping a tob'ob from the s.
In the cities the veils are also black. In some parts of Palestine, married women and widows wear a tarbush shaped hat covered in coins shatweh. While to the north they wear a coin covered bonnet smadeh and another horseshow shape with more coins saffeh. The unmarried village girls wear a bonnet malas. In some areas when the girls reach marriageable age they switch to a wuqa which is like a simple version of the smadeh - basically a bonnet with a few coins.
While unmarried Bedouin girls wear Hattah like a bag, married women roll it like a headband. From s men also wore the Turkish qumbaz which had long narrow sleeves. The Bedouin women in Northern Palestine would wear blue or black thobes with tight sleeves that featured embroidery around the neck, hem and seams. Whereas Southern Bedouin women would wear more voluminous thobes with winged sleeves.
Their cross-stitched embroidery was usually in the colour red for women who were married and the colour blue for the unmarried girls. Palestinian village women living in the Northern villages would usually wear coats in bright colours which were paired with long-sleeved shirts and either long skirts or ankle-length pants that were either narrow or loose.
On the other hand, women in the South wore thobes that were either black or white and also featured handmade embroidery. For example, the colours green and red were associated and mostly used in the town of Nablus. Different motifs and designs were also used in different regions. In Bethlehem, women embroidered a moon shape to represent their village. In Galilee, thobes had beautiful floral and foliage designs in red and blue.
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