Tetouan Gold Embroidery (Morocco)

Gold thread embroidered garment from Tetouan, 19th century. Gold thread embroidered garment from Tetouan, 19th century. Courtesy The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Jewish women of Tetouan, Morocco, were famous for the production of gold embroidery. Normally this embroidery took the form of stars or circles worked with gold thread, which were applied to a cloth ground material. These decorated textiles were often used for curtains and hangings in silk and velvet. Tetouan Jewish women sometimes wore velvet dresses decorated in the same manner.

See also: Tetouan embroidery.

Sources:

  • STONE, Caroline (1985). The Embroideries of North Africa, London and New York: Longman, p. 78.
  • VOGELSANG-EASTWOOD, Gillian (2016). 'Embroidery from Morocco,' in: Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood (ed.), Encyclopedia of Embroidery from the Arab World, London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 188-209, esp. pp. 205-206.

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