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Name of Object:

Dress

Name in original language:

Khalagah

Location:

Amman, Jordan

Holding Institution:

Jordan Museum for Costumes and Jewellery, Department of Antiquities

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Date of Object:

Late 19th century – early 20th century

Inventory Number:

71.087

Material(s) / Technique(s):

Chinese cotton, silver coins; machine weaving, machine embroidery

Dimensions:

Height 300 cm, bottom circumference 398 cm

Provenance:

Jordan

Description:

Women's costumes of the central regions of Jordan are characterized by length, dark colours, light vertical strips of embroidery and very long sleeves. This black and blue dress has a very loose fitting, open chest and long flared sleeves pulled over a head band. The length of the dress was adjusted to the height of the woman by a sash. Wide at the bottom, it is decorated horizontally with blue cotton stripes and vertically with embroidery lines and Ottoman coins. The traditional costumes reflect the variegated population composition and demographic changes of the late 19th century-early 20th century Jordanian territory, when new waves of people arrived and settled for the purpose of trades and crafts. Craft was not limited to the everyday life and the profits from crafts were a source of income.

Citation of this web page:

Huda Kilani "Dress" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;jo;2;en

Prepared by: Huda Kilani
Copyedited by: Daniel de la VegaDaniel de la Vega

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MWNF Working Number: JO 002

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