Links
Some magazines in which articles related to wearable heritage are regularly published:
- Magazijn Teylers museum with an article of Sigrid and myself on jewelry and veils
- Adornment Magazine
- Ornament Magazine
- Saudi Aramco World
- HandEye
Some references on the socio-cultural aspects of wearable heritage and intercultural dialogue:
- The Siwa/Copenhagen Untitled (the Art Interchange Project) is a series of three informal workshops aiming at bridging cultural divides, and create exposure to ‘otherness. For the project in which Danish artist and designer Helle Mardahl worked with a group of local women in creating a body of art work. The women of Siwa contributed their ancient knowledge of embroidery, click here.
- Design internationalization, and the Siwa creations project on Siwan emboidery
On beadwork and beads several sites are worthwhile:
- My website on Ancient Beadwork
- Society of bead researchers
- The bead museum
- Center for the study of beadwork
- The Bead Databases
- Global beads, also a seller
Research institutes and researchers on textile and related items:
- Bedouin Silver
- Facebook page on Desert Silver
- Textile Research Centre Leiden
- Nubian Museum in Aswan
- Arita Baaijen’s website shows some links to her books of travels in Egypt and elsewhere
- The Palestinian Heritage Center (PHC)
On coins and Thalers the following sites give useful information:
- Maria Theresa Thaler 1870; this site provides a list of variants and types.
- Article The Maria Theresa Thaler in Hadhramaut
For reference images of contemporary or antique wearable heritage, check out the following sites:
- My Facebook page on Wearable Heritage
- Bedouin Silver
- Facebook page on Desert Silver
- The Photographs of Eric Lafforgue
- Egypt heritage on Image House, site of Gabriel Mikhail with stunning pictures of Egypt and projects on bedouin.
- There is also a Facebook page related to the work of Image House:
- Bedouin Heritage Project Project to safeguard the traditions of the Bedu of Wadi Rum
- For references of pictures of veils I often use the site Niqab. It shows photographs with liks to Flickr or other sites.
The Costume Page Internet resource on costume- Karakalpak site on Central Asian jewellery
- Palestinian Costume Archive
- Jordan Craft Centre on Flickr
- Website of photographer Zbigniew Kosc
- The costume history site
The following museums or institutions provide databases with interesting material and often thumbnails showing objects:
- Widad Kawar Collection Collection
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge (USA)
- The Petrie museum, London (U.K.) provides an online catalogue showing for instance lots of ancient amulets
- Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
- Metropolitan museum, New York (U.S.A.) database, with an online catalogue on ancient Egyptian amulets
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (USA)- RMV Museum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden (The Netherlands)
- Minneapolis Institute of Art collection of veils
- Wereldmuseum Rotterdam (the Netherlands)
- Bayt al Zubar Museum, Muscat (Oman)
- The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago