Embroidered Wall Hanging (2023)

Textile

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Museum of the Palestinian People (MPP)

Name/Title

Embroidered Wall Hanging (2023)

Entry/Object ID

2025.01.9

Tags

On View

Description

Wall hanging composed of embroidered fragments from traditional Palestinian dresses, featuring hand cross-stitch and couching stitch, as well as machine-embroidered cross-stitch, satin stitch, and couching stitch. The fragments primarily feature floral and other curvilinear motifs characteristic of the six-branch dress, a non-regional style that emerged in the mid-twentieth century and is distinguished by the six vertical embroidered bands, or branches, extending from the waist to the hem. These dresses incorporated motifs that were not specific to individual villages, reflecting changes in Palestinian dress and embroidery following 1948. The fragments presented here do not represent village-specific dress traditions of pre-1948 Palestine, but document the range of hand and machine embroidery techniques used in Palestinian dressmaking from the 1980s through the 2000s.

Collection

Permanent Collection

Cataloged By

Wafa Ghnaim

Category

Ethnographic Collection

Acquisition

Source (if not Accessioned)

Gift of Salma Said

Made/Created

Date made

2025

Material

Cotton

Web Links and URLs

"Tatreez in Time," Wafa Ghnaim (2024)

Provenance

Notes

The donor purchased this wall hanging from Bawab Al-Tashark in Amman, Jordan on Rainbow Street, from a man named Majdi Al Qutbi from Nasra, Palestine. The donor saw it in 2023, and purchased it in 2024. The wall hanging has a sister, that is similar but different, that the donor gifted to the Tatreez Institute collection.