Widad Kawar

Widad Kawar

Widad Kawar ( _ar. وداد قعوار ) is an internationally renowned collector of Jordanian and Palestinian ethnic and cultural arts. She has amassed an extensive collection of dresses, costumes, textiles, and jewelry over the past 45 years, seeking to preserve a culture that has been largely dispersed by conflict. Kawar is known as "Umm l'ibas al-falastini" - the mother of Palestinian dress. [http://www.rimalbooks.com/newsdetails.asp?toppage=News&newsid=25]

Biography

Kawar grew up in Bethlehem. She studied in Ramallah and at the American University of Beirut. [ [http://www.daratalfunun.org/main/activit/curentl/widad_kawar/widad_kawar.html Darat al Funun currently on ] ] Kawar has made her collection available for public viewing and has mounted exhibits of Palestinian dress around the world. She has written many books on Palestinian embroidery and is seeking to establish a Gallery of Cultural Embroidery. Recently, she collaborated with Margaret Skinner on "A Treasury of Stitches: Palestinian Embroidery Motifs, 1850-1950" (Rimal/Melisende) [ [http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=927205&contrassID=2&subContrassID=15 A stitch in time - Haaretz - Israel News ] ]

Published work

*Kawar, Widad: "Pracht Und Geheimnis - Kleidung Und Schmuck Aus Palästina Und Jordanien" ISBN 3-923158-15-7 Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum Munich. 1987
*Kawar, Widad and Tania Nasir: "Palestinian Embroidery : Traditional "Fallahi" Cross-Stitch" ISBN 3-927270-04-0. Munich, State Museum of Ethnography 1992.
*Widad Kawar/Shelagh Weir: "Costumes and Wedding Customs in Bayt Dajan." [http://www.arabheritage.org/bibliography.html]

References

ee also

*Palestinian costumes

External links

*http://www.arabheritage.org/index.html The home-page
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20061024054614/http://www.palestinecostumearchive.org/contemporary.htm Palestine Costume Archive; contemporary]


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