Fragment: Hat Item Number: 3448/49 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

Piece of cloth completely embroidered with three rows of repeating geometric shapes in red, black and orange. The bottom edge is finished with a loop stitch in red; the other three sides have cut edges.

History Of Use

Originally said to be part of a hat; may have formed the cylindrical band for a brimless cap.

Narrative

Purchased by the donor from a shop called "Bedouin Art" in the old city, Jerusalem, in the late 1990s.