Is this like Jesus' "seamless garment"?
What period?
--Ruth Anne Baumgartner
scholar gypsy and amateur costumer
On May 12, 2007, at 5:43 PM, Cin wrote:
So the gist of the question seems to be:
* Islamic Middle East, near Jerusalem (although no guarantees that
his original source was specific to
So the gist of the question seems to be:
* Islamic Middle East, near Jerusalem (although no guarantees that
his original source was specific to that location)
* garment/cloth woven to shape, not cut or sewn
* worn by emir (presumably in his original source material)
* name something like "bougamel
I received the following query (via my surviving garments web page)
from an author who needs help verifying a term. I'll post his
question below and will forward him anything people can provide to
help. (I haven't had a chance to check with him whether it would be
ok to post his e-mail ad
