Set of 3 Palestinian Clay Bread Stamps –al-Khalil Folk Pottery

Name: Set of 3 Palestinian Clay Bread Stamps –al-Khalil Folk Pottery
SKU: 116649876

أشرفية، بيروت

منذ 20 ساعات

التفاصيل

النوعأغراض أخرى

الحالةمستعمل

نوع البائعفرد

الوصف

Traditional Palestinian clay bread stamps like these from al-Khalil (Hebron) are part of a long household and communal-oven practice in the central highlands of Palestine. Before modern packaging and bakery branding, families marked their dough with a carved stamp so the furn (communal oven) could tell which loaf belonged to which household or to which “division” of the bakery. The motifs on this set — the framed star/rosette and the braided leaf border — are typical of Hebron folk pottery in the mid-20th century and echo older geometric patterns found on Palestinian textiles and woodwork. Pieces like this speak to a time when bread was produced collectively, identity was carried in everyday objects, and women used functional tools that were also decorative and symbolic. As a group, these three stamps form a small but telling record of Palestinian domestic life, foodways, and village economy under Mandate and early post-Mandate periods the kind of material culture that rarely survives because it was used daily and eventually broken or discarded.

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