A daily work dress (thobe) from the area of Bayt Nabala, Ramla District. It is made of beige linen and embroidered with primarily red silk threads. The chest panel of the thobe is embroidered with a cypress and feather stitch pattern, and in the middle are squares in the shape of rose stitch patterns. As for the shoulders and the back of the chest panel (the upper back neckline), pieces of the Ottoman fabric used in sewing a man’s qumbaz (coat) have been attached to it. It is surrounded by green and orange fabric, and the shoulders are adorned with an epaulette-like design made of the same fabric. Distributed across the sleeves are embroidered rose pots. The panel of the thobe from the bottom of the waist has tatreez (embroidery) motifs comprised of various stitch patterns, dominated by the fan motif on the sides (al-Banayiq), and the rose motif on the front and back panels. The back panel and the lower back/tail area (al-Dhiyal) were densely embroidered with the wheat ear (sunbula), Pasha’s tent, cypress, high palm, and mountain motifs, all names which are local designations.
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