This type of work was made for the international tourist trade of the 1920's. The design of the garment is based on a British military dress jacket.
TRC online catalogue (retrieved 14 November 2016).
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British Military Style Jacket from Bethlehem
Jacket from Bethlehem, Palestine, 1920's.
Courtesy Textile Research Centre, Leiden, acc. no. TRC 2001.0120.
The Textile Research Centre in Leiden houses a jacket from Bethlehem, which dates to the 1920's and is made of factory-made velvet and decorated with hand embroidered couching showing stylised flowers and geometric motifs.
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