Leena Sobeih created her wedding corset and skirt, featuring tatreez, or traditional Palestinian cross-stitch.

In Palestine, the embroidery of patterns using specific colours is ... examples of tatreez-style embroidery as a geometric silk cross-stitch fragment from 11th-century Alexandria.

Growing up as a Palestinian in the diaspora, Zain Masri would spend summers visiting her grandmother in Jordan. One summer, Masri’s grandmother, who is a skilled seamstress with her own business ...

Masri, who works in marketing in Dubai, reconnected with her family tradition of cross-stitching Palestinian patterns during the pandemic. "I joined online embroidery communities for inspiration ...

The art of Palestinian embroidery is vast beyond the documentation available online and in print. Many patterns online, for example, show cross-stitch, a type of embroidery that creates stitches ...

People come together every Tuesday on the University of Michigan campus to work on a tapestry based on traditional Palestinian embroidery. Each stitch represents a death in Gaza. For months ...

Each cross-stitch in this illustration symbolizes a Palestinian killed ... trying their hand at the intricate embroidery, Amer also shared a link to the pattern. “I wish I could do more as ...

The embroidery features complex motifs. Kitamura says each pattern has a story, and there are regional variations between the pieces. "In Palestine, it was a tradition to tailor one outfit with ...