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Men’s Clothes
When he goes out of his house a man wears a bisht, which is a cloak usually made of wool...
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Women’s Clothes
Women’s traditional clothes are widely diversified and divided into several classes, general long ..
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Jewellery
No traditional woman’s dress is complete without jewellery, decorations and ornaments in gold, sil..
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Dappling and Embroidery
The finest Islamic embroidery can still be seen today in the shroud that covers the kaabah.
Popular embroidery is made by three main means: alkoraar, alnaqdah and altali.
- Alkoraar is a hand-made stripe and is used as clothes accessory to adorn the hems of clothes.
- Alnaqdah is a type of dress ornament made of palm leaves to the cloth which is embroidered with tali threads in geometrical shapes that are pressed with the hands to fix the dress ornament in place.
- Altali are stripes made of metal threads call khows set as ornaments in geometrical shape, and placed on the thawb or the fringes of the sirwaal.
Kaftan
Serma embroidery
Serma is an embroidery with golden silk thread and golden wire in a special techniquw that doesn't pentrate the material.
Material: Drak red velvet.
Measurements:
Length: 133 cm
Width: 60 cm
Date & place: Private Collection
Doha 1920
Serma embroidery
Serma is an embroidery with golden silk thread and golden wire in a special techniquw that doesn't pentrate the material.
Material: Drak red velvet.
Measurements:
Length: 133 cm
Width: 60 cm
Date & place: Private Collection
Doha 1920
Cord Decoration
A Moghal Umbrella