The Palestinian style of embroidery — called tatreez — is the centerpiece of the dress, designed and stitched to represent Barkawi’s heritage and also her personal identity and story.

An exhibition of Palestinian dress and embroidery is set to open at V&A Dundee, as the city marks 45 years since it was twinned with Nablus in the West Bank. Thread Memory: Embroidery From Palestine ...

Hanan K Munayyer, a scholar specialising in Palestinian dress, identifies one of the earliest examples of tatreez-style embroidery as a geometric silk cross-stitch fragment from 11th-century ...

Birds also commonly feature on traditional dress, along with stars and moon symbols. For Palestinians living in the diaspora, learning the craft can also be a form of defiance, by staying in touch ...

Miss Universe tried to white wash this tatreez embroidery as “Israeli Bedouin dress”. Y’all don’t know every Palestinian region including those ethnically cleansed (urban, rural, and ...

In a workshop in an infamous refugee camp in Beirut, Palestinian women practice an ancient art form — as a livelihood, and also as therapy. The designs come from a homeland most have never seen.

Tatreez Inheritance focuses on the past 75 years, during which Palestinians have faced dispossession, ... The story Ghnaim tells with a selection of historic and contemporary dresses, ...

As Rashida Tlaib arrived on Capitol Hill to be sworn into the House of Representatives on Thursday, she was wearing a distinctive outfit: a traditional Palestinian thobe, or dress, adorned with ...

Note: This event has been postponed due to weather. BRATTLEBORO — A member of a Palestinian women’s cooperative will visit Brattleboro on Sunday, Feb. 16, to show and sell tatreez, the iconic ...

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 ...