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Cloth woven by hand in Palestine’s towns: until the British Mandate, the cotton and woollen fabrics on which women embroidered were partly made in al-Majdal, Gaza, Nazareth, Bethlehem and Beit Jala, and coloured with natural dyes, indigo from the Jordan Valley for blue, madder, kermes and cochineal for red. As finer European cloth was imported on a large scale under the Mandate, local weaving declined.
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · supports · section: “Some locally sourced cotton and woolen textiles were also produced in al-Majdal, Gaza, Nazareth, Bethlehem, and Beit Jala.”
Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Palestine · supports · section: “Some cotton and wool fabrics were locally produced in Majdal, Gaza, Nazareth, Bethlehem, and Beit Jala.”
Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Palestine · supports · section: “Some cotton and wool fabrics were locally produced in Majdal, Gaza, Nazareth, Bethlehem, and Beit Jala.”
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · supports · section: “Some locally sourced cotton and woolen textiles were also produced in al-Majdal, Gaza, Nazareth, Bethlehem, and Beit Jala.”
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · supports · section: “Some locally sourced cotton and woolen textiles were also produced in al-Majdal, Gaza, Nazareth, Bethlehem, and Beit Jala.”
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · supports · section: “Some locally sourced cotton and woolen textiles were also produced in al-Majdal, Gaza, Nazareth, Bethlehem, and Beit Jala.”
Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Palestine · supports · section: “Some cotton and wool fabrics were locally produced in Majdal, Gaza, Nazareth, Bethlehem, and Beit Jala.”
Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Palestine · supports · section: “Some cotton and wool fabrics were locally produced in Majdal, Gaza, Nazareth, Bethlehem, and Beit Jala.”
Travel Palestine, the tourism portal of the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Palestine · supports · section: Throughout Gaza, weavers can be seen creating brightly colored rugs on wooden looms.
Evidence version: travel-palestine-woven-rugs:v1
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PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · supports · section: “Some locally sourced cotton and woolen textiles were also produced in al-Majdal, Gaza, Nazareth, Bethlehem, and Beit Jala.”