Wafa Ghnaim’s mother was forced into exile from her home in Safad in historic Palestine at the age of three. To keep the ties with her home region alive, she taught herself the art of tatreez, a form ...

Born in Ramallah at the end of the ‘90s, Ayham Hassan grew up privy to the political weight attributed to certain sartorial practices. “I became aware early on that Palestinian textiles are not just ...

We speak to a tatreez artisan from a refugee camp and her effort to protect this heritage Historically, tatreez sessions have been a place for bonding... when women would engage in open dialogues, ...

There’s an old saying that ‘clothes maketh a man’, meaning that the way we dress defines us. But the intricate criss-cross pattern of Tatreez, the art of Palestinian hand embroidery, does more than ...

If you spent some time in Waterloo Park this summer, you may have seen a group of people sitting together and embroidering a quilt. They are part of Tatreez Studio, a local Palestinian community arts ...

Maki Yamamoto has spent the last eight years trying to reframe how Palestinians are seen in her native land of Japan. Her weapon of choice is the Palestinian Embroidery Obi Project, which fuses the ...