| Country |
Garments |
| Egypt |
Upper Egyptian Black Eyelet Fallah Dress. Upper
Egyptian bedouin caftan of solid embroidery on bottom half in bluetones.
Two silk artfully smocked caftans similar to those found in Syria. |
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SIWA OASIS -White wedding dress intricate
embroidery and traditional "buttons" also black silk dress traditionally worn on 8th day
of wedding for visiting family, also traditional hand embroidered shawls and scarves and
antique silver jewelry. |
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BAHARIYA OASIS -Traditional dress of tri-colored embroidery on black
with wool fringe and coins. Old style heavily embroidered dress of cotton threads of pinks
and oranges on black with old coins. Traditional silver chainlike earrings, bracelet and
necklace. Hand embroidered shawls of silk. |
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FARARFRA OASIS -Traditional embroidered man's vest of silk.
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ASSUIT-Middle Egypt -Collection of antique shawls of Assuit metal toule embroidering (silver
through black net and white net.) Assuit intricate caftan and dress. |
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NUBIA (Aswan) Collection of Nubian silk and embroidered caftans
and shawls and an Antique Malaya. |
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SINAI-Bedouin -Hand embroidered caftans with heavily
embellished face veils with coins. Two children's embroidered headpieces with coins. |
| Jordan |
Amman, Jerash, Petra
- embroidered coat, caftan, shawls |
| Lebanon |
Biblos and Tripoli- hand woven caftans
and an Abeya from Beirut |
| Morocco |
Casablanca - ladies hooded
jalabba with silk trim. Tourindant (near Agadir), Silk Dafina
with gold woven belt and headdress |
| Palestine |
Ladies hand embroidered rough linen caftan.
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| Saudi Arabia |
Thoube Natshal (wedding) and Silk Saudi Caftan-
sequin and beaded embroidery |
| Syria |
Damascus, Aleppo -antique silk
embroidered coats. Hand embroidered caftan on cotton |
| Tunisia |
KAIROUAN - hand woven women's black linen burnous or long cape. Also
ladies green and gold striped caftan of hand woven silk threads. |
|
CHEBEKA OASIS -White linen berber dress with
colorful striped empbroidered appliques with hand woven headscarf.
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ISLAND OF DJERBA -Traditional caftan of gold threads
with matching malaya and antique gold mess wedding headress with antique berber silver jewelry.
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BERBER DANCING COSTUME -Traditional hand woven caftan, malaya
headress, vest, jewelry and scarves in blues and golds.
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TOZEUR-Men's vest and brown wool burnous or hooded cape. |
| Turkey |
Istanbul - ladies velvet
coat with silk embroidery. |
