Anat and her hero Baal the Embroidery Pattern language of the Levant.

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176 pp., hardback binding, profusely b/w and colored illustrations, index, copy new and in mint condition. The book covers research into the development of clothing in the Levant and social analysis of the retreat of folkloric practices over the last 150 years. The book, by author Heike Weber, compares the traditional embroidery patterns of the Levant with the early patterns of humankind in the same area and concludes that the ancient symbolic patterns, which express a philosophy of Life, have survived in folkloric practice over the millenniums.