TIRAZ CENTRE

Tiraz is the home of the most complete collection of Palestinian, Jordanian and other Arab costumes from the 19th and 20th centuries, with over 2000 costumes and weavings. Tiraz is a Jordan-based institution which aims to preserve the Widad Kawar Collection, and promote the vibrant Palestinian and Jordanian cultural heritage and Arab living traditions.

Tiraz is an interactive museum for an elegant and extremely rare kind of social history; a history which is tactile and visual, woven into fabric, and related though the work of women’s hands.

It has taken over fifty years of commitment and vision to build the Widad Kawar Collection, as a home for one of the most significant archives of Arab costume heritage in the modern era.

Tiraz is more than a space to remember. It is a place to restore and renew, what could have become lost.

For more information visit: www.tirazcentre.org