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Dressed with Distinction - Garments from Ottoman Syria (Paperback)
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Dressed with Distinction - Garments from Ottoman Syria (Paperback)
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For hundreds of years, skilled craftspeople in the Syrian centers
of Aleppo, Damascus, and Homs produced intricately woven textiles
for the royal courts, worldly merchants, and elite Bedouin families
of the Ottoman Empire. City dwellers were renowned for wearing
brightly colored silk garments that glittered with gold and silver
threads. By contrast, nomadic Bedouins wore woolen garments in hues
and designs reflecting their desert lifestyle. The allure of these
garments stems from the technical virtuosity with which they were
woven and the aesthetic beauty of their drape and stylized designs.
Dressed with Distinction offers a window onto the history of
textile production in the Middle East during the late nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries, until political and social changes
led to the dominance of Western-style commercially manufactured
attire. In addition to articulating the social and seasonal
contexts in which the garments were worn, this book examines the
styles of dress of women, men, and children in Ottoman Syria,
including cloaks (abaya), head coverings (hatta), women's body
coverings (carsaf), and jackets (qumbas).
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