Abir, his Jerusalem-based magazine, used to feature a local woman in traditional embroidered dress on every cover.

In the 1970s and 1980s, ornately embroidered dresses became popular.

Slowing down, however, yielded better glimpses of the local women in their huipiles, or embroidered dresses.

Her slender little body showed through the embroidered white dress, with an aura of womanhood already about it, although still childlike.

The mothers walked slowly and proudly down the middle of the street in embroidered floor-length dresses.

It was dressed in a wonderful embroidered dress that had belonged to the dead baby, and wore one of her slippers.

Elderly Palestinian women, in embroidered dresses, squat behind bags of snap peas.

Women wear long white embroidered dresses with very heavy velvet aprons tied at the waist.

Cimorene made a list of the ingredients they still needed, while Alianora changed back into her pearl- embroidered dress.

I had bought an embroidered white Mayan dress - wide, long, a lyrical thing - for this daughter of a close friend.