Taqsireh

NameClothing

Artist Artist Not Recorded

Datelate nineteenth-early twentieth century

Place madeBethlehem, West Bank, Palestine Territory, Middle East or West Asia, Asia

MediumWool, silk, metallic thread

Dimensions22 13/16 x 19 1/2 in. (58 x 49.5 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, IFAF Collection; Gift of the Florence Dibell Bartlett Estate, FA.1954.38.71

Object numberFA.1954.38.71

Collections

Palestinian Dress and Jewelry

DescriptionBlue wool embroidered with orange and purple floral meanders and medallions on front, sleeves, and back. Crocheted edging on all openings. Lined with charcoal colored fabric with woven grid and spots. Measurement width is shoulder to shoulder, sleeve end to sleeve end 112 cm/44 in. width at bottom is 52 cm/20.5 in.

Old #3907 Taqșireh (late nineteenth-early twentieth century) (Plate 7) This taqșireh is a classic Bethlehem jacket. It is of blue wool felt (probably commercial). The embroidery is fine Bethlehem couching (shughl bēt laḥm or talḥameh) with multi- colored silk thread, mostly orange and magenta and some gold metallic thread. The designs are more geometrical and stylized than in jacket no. 2026. They include the classic pitcher motif (sharbeh) on both the front and back, in addition to the usual floresques, arabesques, and the typical Bethlehem bird. On the shoulders is the so-called cypress pattern (sarū). The crocheted edging is of tightly twisted silk thread. The jacket is lined with black wool challis with red dots. Length: 58 cm. Width: 49.5 cm. (Palestinian Costume and Jewelry, Yedida Kalfon Stillman, 1979 ISBN: 0-82630490-7)