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Mamluk Egyptian Clothing

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By Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood

An exploration of the colourful, varied—often complicated and elaborate—daily clothing in Mamluk-era Egypt.

This article was first published in print in RAWI's ISSUE 11, 2021

Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood is the director of the Textile Research Centre, Leiden and a specialist in Middle Eastern dress and textiles. She has worked for many years as a textile archaeologist in Egypt and is the author and editor of numerous authoritative publications including Pharaonic Egyptian Clothing (Brill, 1993), and Encyclopedia of Embroidery from the Arab World (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016), among others.

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