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Showing posts with label historical headcovering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label historical headcovering. Show all posts
Monday, August 11, 2014

Historical Head-Coverings: The Sarma, Algerian Jewish Women's Head-Covering

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The Sarma was made of a metal piece with a tall front that could project up to a meter tall, with pieces that fit the sides and the to...
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Thursday, December 26, 2013

Historical Head Covering: Mehdor

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Since some of us have a little more time this week- I seem to be upping the blogging schedule.  Here's some pretty interesting infor...
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Where Google Can't Provide

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I've been working on some more historical headcovering posts- and I'm finding that this is one area where Google image searches, or ...
Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Historical Head Covering: The Grun

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The grun is one of the more distinctive Jewish head coverings that I've come across.  It was worn by married women in the Atlas Mountain...
Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Chag Urim Sameach, Happy (Anticipatory) Thanksgiving, And More

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Dear Readers (I've been re-reading Isaac Asimov, hence the opening), My computer died a few days ago. I hope to maintain a regular po...
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Thursday, January 17, 2013

Not Quite Related- But Too Cool To Pass Up Sharing

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This piece on the hair style and headdress of the Roman Vestal Virgins  is not exactly related to Jewish head covering, but just too cool an...
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Thursday, August 23, 2012

Historical Head-Covering: Yemenite Wedding Headdresses

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We're off to another wedding tonight, so in its honor, here's a post about Yemenite Jewish wedding head coverings.  These are much m...
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Sunday, August 12, 2012

What is a Shterntikhl? Historical Head Coverings, Part 1

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We're off to a wedding this afternoon.  In honor of it, I thought I'd share this piece about fancy head coverings from the Jewish co...