Iraqi Kurdistan Region 1999 - Traditional Costumes (Seri 1 & 2)

 

Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government has for a long time now, been using very many different motives for their stamps. All marked with “Iraqi Kurdistan Region”. But a special set of stamps, among all those beautiful designs, caught my attention. In this set – we see Kurdish clothes on men and women:

It is easy to see that the stamps, for one, are old – but besides this – the clothes are those of the Badra Province of South Kurdistan – and make up a part of the Kurmanca style of clothings, Kiras û Fîstan.

But what is more interesting than the set of purely Kurdish clothes, is the set of Kurdistani clothes on men and women:

Here we see, from left to right:

Kurmanca style, Êzidî style, Feîlî/Shebek style – all part of Kurdish clothing styles and last but not least on the far right hand we see clothings in Ashûrî style. All these are part of the Kurdistani culture.

I was very amused and even happy to see this set of stamps. Likewise I hope it amuses you and spreads the message which the KRG for so long has been trying to send – there is UNITY among Kurdistan – they are all part of a Kurdistani culture. Diversity is rarely as celebrated as it is in Kurdistan. For thousands of years there has been a sense of co-existence in Kurdistan among Kurds and Assyrians.