Jillayeh

NameDress

Artist Artist Not Recorded

CultureBedouin

Dateca. 1900

Place madeBayt Dajan or Beit Dajan, Nablus, West Bank, Palestine Territory, Middle East or West Asia, Asia

Mediumlinen, silk

Dimensionsoverall: 1 M 31.5 CM X 1 M 2 CM (SLEEVE TIP TO SLEEVE TIP)

Credit LineIFAF Collection

Object numberFA.1972.25.29

Collections

Palestinian Dress and Jewelry

DescriptionWoman's wedding dress. Handloomed indigo. Slit front center panel surrounded by multi-color silk. Side and back panels of mainly brown cross-stitch embroidery in chevron, floral and lined designs.

FA. 72.25–29 Jillāyeh (ca. 1900) This somewhat more recent jillāyeh is also from the Beit Dajan area. It is made of handwoven, dark indigo linen. The embroidery is similar in color, motif, and technique to that of no. 3372; however, there is less of it, and there is no couching. The yoke is the usual red and yellow striped atlas silk. The silk heremsy appliqué bordering the slit in the skirt front is deep red, green, and gold. Long cords with several tassels fasten the neck closing. There are glass beads just above the tassels. At the sleeve edges and the hem of the skirt is a scalloped border of heremsy silk appliqué. The qabbeh of this jillāyeh was apparently never finished. Length: 133 cm. Width: 84 cm. (Palestinian Costume and Jewelry, Yedida Kalfon Stillman, 1979 ISBN: 0-82630490-7)