Comments on: Nostalgia Sunday – Yemenite Embroidery

By: Nostalgia Sunday – Stitching in the Seventies | ISRAELITY

Nostalgia Sunday – Stitching in the Seventies | ISRAELITY — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:08:45 +0000

[...] Bedouin and Palestinian embroidery was also a big influence. For instance, my Israeli mother was definitely an embroidery groupie, and spent hours and days scouring the Old City shuk for just the right black velvet embroidered [...]

By: Miri

Miri — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:01:34 +0000

Beautiful embroidery…you’re totally right-who needs jewels with those wonderful necklines.

By: jessica

jessica — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:11:34 +0000

okay, i wore those dresses by esther zeitz, when i was about 6 and 8, or maybe 4 and 6. why twice? because i had two older sisters, and they had matching esther zeitz dresses, in blue, with that heavy silver embroidery, and i hated them…and yet, i had to wear both of them when i hit each size. and my mother would say, “but their esther zeitz dresses, they’re beautiful!”