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إدراج التطريز الفلسطيني على قائمة اليونسكو
Exact day15 December 2021
Palestine
On 15 December 2021 UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage inscribed “the art of embroidery in Palestine, practices, skills, knowledge and rituals”, submitted by the State of Palestine, on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Linked context in the legacy record
UNESCO’s office in Ramallah reported that the inscription was made on 15 December 2021, at the Committee’s sixteenth session, held virtually from UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris. The Committee’s decision is 16.COM 8.b.30.
Link to this chapterUNESCO · section: Opening paragraph
Original-language quotation · enOn 15 December 2021, and during the 16th session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage held virtually from UNESCO Headquarters in ParisLink to this citationUNESCO · section: Inscription details
Editorial paraphrase · enInscribed in 2021 (16.COM) on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity; decision 16.COM 8.b.30; State of Palestine.
Link to this citationUNESCO’s record describes a practice originally made and worn in rural areas and now common in all of Palestine and among the diaspora: dresses, jackets, headdresses and veils embroidered in silk thread on wool, linen or cotton, whose colours and designs indicated a woman’s regional identity and her marital and economic status, passed from mother to daughter and in formal training courses.
Link to this chapterUNESCO · section: Description
Original-language quotation · enThe choice of colours and designs indicates the woman’s regional identity and marital and economic status.The description also says the embroidery is sewn with silk thread on wool, linen or cotton, and is transmitted from mother to daughter and through formal training courses.
Link to this citationSources & evidence
Contextual sources are further reading. Precise supporting passages appear alongside the chapters.
photograph · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The photograph shown with this event: a woman’s dress from Palestine, nineteenth century, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Public domain: the museum marks the object public domain and releases its photograph under its Open Access policy (CC0).
article · UNESCO
UNESCO’s Ramallah office on the inscription, 17 December 2021.
Reference metadata and an original summary only. No permission to copy or host the source’s text, photographs, audio or video is asserted.
document · UNESCO
The element’s record on UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage site.
Reference metadata and an original summary only. No permission to copy or host the source’s text, photographs, audio or video is asserted.
15 December 2021 · day
12-15 · occurrence
Anniversary of the documented date.
EVERY RECORD IS PART OF A LARGER STORY
HeritagePalestinian embroidery (tatreez) is connected to EventPalestinian embroidery is inscribed on UNESCO’s list
Role: Inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List
Attributed to UNESCO.
UNESCO · supports · section: Inscription details: 2021, decision 16.COM 8.b.30
Evidence version:unesco-ich-palestinian-embroidery:v1References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.