Threads of identity : preserving Palestinian costume and heritage / Widad Kamel Kawar.

This book is a record of the 50 years Widad Kawar spent researching, collecting and preserving part of the heritage of Palestine. This endeavor evolved into the Widad Kawar Collection, the largest to date of Palestinian, Jordanian and other Arab traditional dress and accessories, comprising more tha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kawar, Widad
Language:English
Published: Nicosia, Cyprus : Rimal Publications, 2011.
Subjects:
Clothing and dress > Palestine.
Palestine > Social life and customs.
Physical Description:x, 449 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Story of the collection
  • Reconstructing a disappearing heritage
  • Palestinian costumes, Palestinian lives
  • Ramallah
  • Jericho
  • Hebron
  • Bethlehem
  • Jerusalem
  • Jaffa
  • Ramla & Lydda
  • Galilee
  • Nablus
  • Gaza
  • Southern Palestine
  • The new dress : born of camp life and resistance
  • Tying the threads.