Widad Kawar

Widad Kawar (Arabic: وداد قعوار ) is an internationally renowned collector of Jordanian and Palestinian ethnic and cultural arts. She has amassed an extensive collection of dresses, costumes, textiles, and jewelry over the past 45 years, seeking to preserve a culture that has been largely dispersed by conflict. Kawar is known as Umm l'ibas al-falastini - the mother of Palestinian dress.http://www.rimalbooks.com/newsdetails.asp?toppage=News&newsid=25
==Biography==
Kawar grew up in Bethlehem. She studied in Ramallah and at the American University of Beirut.Darat al Funun currently on Kawar has made her collection available for public viewing and has mounted exhibits of Palestinian dress around the world. She has written many books on Palestinian embroidery and is seeking to establish a Gallery of Cultural Embroidery. Recently, she collaborated with Margaret Skinner on A Treasury of Stitches: Palestinian Embroidery Motifs, 1850-1950 (Rimal/Melisende) A stitch in time - Haaretz - Israel News
==Published work==
*Kawar, Widad: Pracht Und Geheimnis - Kleidung Und Schmuck Aus Palästina Und Jordanien ISBN 3-923158-15-7 Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum Munich. 1987
*Kawar, Widad and Tania Nasir: Palestinian Embroidery : Traditional "Fallahi" Cross-Stitch ISBN 3-927270-04-0. Munich, State Museum of Ethnography 1992.
*Widad Kawar/Shelagh Weir: Costumes and Wedding Customs in Bayt Dajan.
==References==
==External links==
*Palestine Costume Archive; contemporary
Category:Living people
Category:People from Bethlehem