Palestinian Costume Paperback – 12 April 2008

A great reference book. Beautiful illustrations

The book is a history book, it extensively details not only the customs of dress in villages and cities but on the materials used, where they were imported from with clear descriptions of all the photos in the book. Perfect for a gift or a detailed comprehensive study of Palestinian traditional costume. Recommended.

Informational book with some patterns and history

A wonderfl and well profound documentation of Palestinian custome. A very important work especially in times where Israeli probaganda ist trying to delete Palestinian history and claim Palestinian culture and confiscate it as "Israeli" culture

Very well documented and written, it did meet my expectations

This book is full of great information and photos

This book is an amazing tribute to the lasting legacy of traditional dress as envisioned by the people of Palestine. Traditional people always identify with their form of dress because of its outward identifiable mark of who a people are inwardly. The symbolism found in the images and geometric patterns of the dress design are indicative of the harmony and symmetry that exist within the soul of the 'simple folk of the land' (i.e. the fallaheen; sometimes referred to in translation as 'country folk,' or even 'farmers'). These are the people who are the "salt of the earth," as another expression in the English language would have it. Palestinian traditional dress is that outward expression of an inner call to a balanced and grounded relationship with God and nature, Heaven and earth. Birds of paradise perched on a tree, gazelles bouncing amidst a stylized, other-wordly landscape, flowers blooming in the ether of a space alluded to in the mystical poetry of the Holy Land. Ultimately, when one sits in contemplation of the dress of traditional Palestine, one is unknowingly looking at oneself in a mirror.