Munjela

One of the most beautiful things our grandmothers created was a technique for joining the pieces of a thobe together — it's called manajel, singular monjaileh. It connected the panels in a way that turned the seam from a purely functional necessity into a genuine art technique, adding beauty on top of beauty, with a striking range of colors woven into it. To me, manajel is something only a truly meticulous woman would take on — she wasn't satisfied with just producing and sewing the thobe; she went further to bring it out in its most stunning form.