The Southall Collection is a major collection of Palestinian Dress dating from 1900-1930. It includes garments and accessories worn by nomadic Bedouin people as well as men, women and children living in Ramallah and Bethlehem.

This head cloth from the collection is a good example of what was worn by men as a turban around the end of the twentieth century. The turban or laffeh was usually made from Syrian fabrics, striped or sometimes checked in a range of different colours, and with a tasselled fringe on two edges. A plain white cloth was wrapped around the tarbush, a man's small felt hat, to protect the laffeh from sweat. Then the laffeh was wrapped around the tarbush leaving the crown exposed. This particular headcloth is white with regular blue stripes running horizontally the whole length, both ends have a tassled fringe.