Wedding dress. Silk garment is long, with a flaring skirt, V neck, and long bell shaped sleeves that flare widely toward the wrists and come to a hanging point at bottom. Dress is heavily embroidered in repeating small gold circular motifs lying in diagonal stripes across the dress, on a light tan ground. Panels of heavy embroidery are sewn into the shoulders and sleeves of the dress, the torso, along the sides of the skirt, and bottom back hem, showing chevrons, flowers, birds and other motifs in orange, red, green and purple on a red and orange ground. The interior is unlined.

• Narrative

  Purchased by the donor at a shop in Jerusalem, in 1970.

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• Type of Item dress
• Culture Palestinian
• Material silk fibre, dye
• Measurements height 141.0 cm, width 157.0 cm (overall)

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• Previous Owner Raymond Hall
• Received from Raymond Hall

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• Made in Palestine

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• Creation Date before 1914
• Collection Date during 1970
• Ownership Date before May 9, 2017
• Acquisition Date on May 9, 2017

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• Item Classes textiles
• Condition good
• Accession Number 3241/0001