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Saturday, March 26, 2016

Tiles of the 20s make Palestinian comeback

 Jalal Aslan Tiles is the only place in Palestine that makes --by hand-- these beauties:


Popular for the fancy classes from the turn of the century right up into the 40s and 50s, the cement tiles had a good long time to develop a whole Palestine-wide fashion landscape, with different styles becoming popular in different cities, with everything from colour preference to motif becoming characteristic of a region, a family, or a home. This one, with its yellow, red, and green, round formations and flower edges, is typical of the Nablus area.