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Wedding tunic (mwashma), Raf-Raf (Tunisia)

Wedding tunic (mwashma), Raf-Raf (Tunisia)
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  • Beautiful .Didnt know you were getting into textiles...Ebay? A child dress?

  • Very nice indeed!  The embroidery would be worth a Close-up!  

  • Thank you very much!. Actually, I am not much into textiles (yet) but I found it in Ebay for a very, very good price and could not resist. Here you have some more pics.

     

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  • nice. i like a lot.

    mawashma means tatooed. as you see, the name has with the embrodery to do

  • oh thank you for the Close-up Pictures! it is really breathtakingly beautiful!

  • Thanks for the nice close ups. I was hoping to find on the embroidery patterns we find on the silver jewelry.I cant really but perhaps its because I dont know Tunisian jewelry well enough. Maybe Edith could comment?

  • Very good quality piece we don't often get to see in trade.. Nice combination of pattern with embroidery. 

  • Very nice tunic!  Chantal, I do not know if there are any direct correlations with jewelry patterns, but I suspect that, like everything else Tunisian, an analysis of the motifs would probably yield a combination of Berber, Fatimid and Ottoman influences.  You can probably see many correlations with various patterns in Tunisian carpets.This is a nice find since the traditional wedding clothing and jewelry is being supplanted by more westernized jewelry and clothing.

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