Haik (clothing)

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Woman in Haik in Algiers 2015

The Haik ( Arabic الحايك) is an item of clothing worn as a shawl or veil for women and men from the Maghreb .

It consists of a 6 x 2.20 m white cotton cloth that covers the head, shoulders and upper body and sometimes falls elegantly to the side to the floor. Sometimes haiks were also adorned with geometric-abstract motifs such as triangles, diamonds or combs.

  • Kabyle Haikträgerin in the 19th century

  • Woman from Morocco in a Haïk, around 1900

  • Haik from Morocco ( LACMA )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ambroise Queffélec: Le français en Algérie. Lexique et dynamique des langues . Éditions Duculet, Bruxelles 2002, p. 343, ISBN 2-8011-1294-1 .