Refugee Cultural HeritageTraditional costumes of Aleppo
Title Traditional costumes of Aleppo
Contributor Ḥassūn, Rawād (photographer)
Editor Ma‘rūf, Walīd
Year(s) 2019-08-22
Type Image
Rights Holder Swansea City Opera/AUB Libraries, All rights reserved.
Subject(s) Folklore
Traditional clothes
Embroideries
Traditional costumes
Syrian heritage
Aleppo (Syria)
Collection Refugee Cultural Heritage
Note(s) The traditional costume of Aleppo consists of kanbaz and trousers, the waistcoat, the fur, the papule, and the Arab mountain coat which is made of camel hair, embroided with golden threads usually worn in winter . Silk threads wrapped on each other, embroidered from the front and have no sleeves. The men also puts on the head an ethnic Agal while his shoes are slippers and Bastar which is a pair of boots with a leg, clogs are also warn in the summer.