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Woman's Dress (Thob), 1800-1900, Palestine, Ramallah, Full length woman's dress made of unbleached cotton embroidered in coloured silks. Pointed triangular hanging sleeves. Small round neck slit to about waist level, edged with quilted cotton and outlined in two rows of black backstitch with a white row inbetween. The slit is bound and faced with pink cotton. Two neck ties are of twisted cotton thread with multi-coloured tassels. Seam across the sleeve and the seam to its sloping side have filling of yellow embroidery in yellow with geometric patterns in crimson, pale blue, pink, orange, black, brown, purple. The sleeves have embroidered borders along the edge and along the seam using above colours. The border edging the lower sleeve is different to edging of upper part. All mainly in fine cross-stitch an employ geometric and plant forms. At front of robe is a wide area of elaborate embroidery, straight sided to hip level, the slopes to a point beneath neck slit. Worked in elaborate vertical strip patterns, again using geometric and plant forms in a wide variety of brilliant glowing colours. Main stitches used are fine cross stitch, half cross stitch, satin stitch. Either side of embroidered panel is a seam worked with an insertion in needle lace stitches.

Woman's Dress (Thob), 1800-1900, Palestine, Ramallah, Full length woman's dress made of unbleached cotton embroidered in coloured silks. Pointed triangular hanging sleeves. Small round neck slit to about waist level, edged with quilted cotton and outlined in two rows of black backstitch with a white row inbetween. The slit is bound and faced with pink cotton. Two neck ties are of twisted cotton thread with multi-coloured tassels. Seam across the sleeve and the seam to its sloping side have filling of yellow embroidery in yellow with geometric patterns in crimson, pale blue, pink, orange, black, brown, purple. The sleeves have embroidered borders along the edge and along the seam using above colours. The border edging the lower sleeve is different to edging of upper part. All mainly in fine cross-stitch an employ geometric and plant forms. At front of robe is a wide area of elaborate embroidery, straight sided to hip level, the slopes to a point beneath neck slit. Worked in elaborate vertical strip patterns, again using geometric and plant forms in a wide variety of brilliant glowing colours. Main stitches used are fine cross stitch, half cross stitch, satin stitch. Either side of embroidered panel is a seam worked with an insertion in needle lace stitches.
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Woman's Dress (Thob), 1800-1900, Palestine, Ramallah, Full length woman's dress made of unbleached cotton embroidered in coloured silks. Pointed triangular hanging sleeves. Small round neck slit to about waist level, edged with quilted cotton and outlined in two rows of black backstitch with a white row inbetween. The slit is bound and faced with pink cotton. Two neck ties are of twisted cotton thread with multi-coloured tassels. Seam across the sleeve and the seam to its sloping side have filling of yellow embroidery in yellow with geometric patterns in crimson, pale blue, pink, orange, black, brown, purple. The sleeves have embroidered borders along the edge and along the seam using above colours. The border edging the lower sleeve is different to edging of upper part. All mainly in fine cross-stitch an employ geometric and plant forms. At front of robe is a wide area of elaborate embroidery, straight sided to hip level, the slopes to a point beneath neck slit. Worked in elaborate vertical strip patterns, again using geometric and plant forms in a wide variety of brilliant glowing colours. Main stitches used are fine cross stitch, half cross stitch, satin stitch. Either side of embroidered panel is a seam worked with an insertion in needle lace stitches.
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Album / quintlox
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5199 x 3479 px | 51.7 MB
Print size:
44.0 x 29.5 cm | 17.3 x 11.6 in (300 dpi)
Keywords:
1800-1900 • AGAIN USING GEOMETRIC • BLACK BACKSTITCH • BLACK PERSON • BLACK RACE • BLACK • BORDER EDGING • BORDER • BOUND • BRILLIANT GLOWING COLOURS • BROWN • COLORS • COLOUR PINK • COLOURED SILKS • COLOURS • CRIMSON • DIFFÉRENT • DRESS • EDGE • EDGED • EDGING • ELABORATE EMBROIDERY • ELABORATE VERTICAL STRIP PATTERNS • EMBROIDERED BORDERS • EMBROIDERED PANEL • EMPLOY GEOMETRIC • FACED • FEMALES • FILLING • FINE CROSS STITCH • FINE CROSS-STITCH • FRONT • FRONTAL • FULL LENGTH WOMAN • GALLOON • GEOMETRIC PATTERNS • HALF CROSS STITCH • HIP LEVEL • INSERTION • LOWER SLEEVE • MAIN STITCHES • MAINLY • MUJER • MUJERES • MULTI-COLOURED TASSELS • NEEDLE LACE STITCHES. • NEGRA • ORANGE • ORANGES • OUTLINED • PALE BLUE • PALESTINAN • PALESTINE • PINK (COLOUR) • PINK COLOR • PINK COTTON • PINK VALLEY • PINK • PINKS • PLANT FORMS • POINT BENEATH NECK SLIT • POINTED TRIANGULAR HANGING SLEEVES • PURPLE • QUILTED COTTON • RAMALLAH • ROBE • SATIN STITCH • SEAM ACROSS • SEAM USING • SEAM WORKED • SEAM • SIDE • SLEEVE • SLEEVES • SLIT • SLOPES • SLOPING SIDE • SMALL ROUND NECK SLIT • STRAIGHT SIDED • THOB • TRIMMING • TWISTED COTTON THREAD • TWO NECK TIES • TWO ROWS • UNBLEACHED COTTON EMBROIDERED • UPPER PART • WAIST LEVEL • WHITE ROW INBETWEEN • WIDE AREA • WOMAN'S • WOMAN • WOMAN. • WOMANS • WOMEN'S • WOMEN • WOMENS • WORKED • YELLOW (COLOR) • YELLOW (COLOUR) • YELLOW EMBROIDERY • YELLOW