Now, through Tatreez Inheritance, Ghnaim is educating new audiences on the legacy of Palestinian embroidery in the United States owing to a Palestinian diaspora of over 255,000 people.

The process brings Nassar back to his roots. Palestinian-American, born and raised in New York, he uses traditional Palestinian motifs in his compositions to convey a sense of longing. As he has ...

Clothing styles in the Middle East vary from country to country, and from region to region. In Palestine, the embroidery of patterns using specific colours is called tatreez. The word means ...

Tatreez is traditional Palestinian embroidery that uses colorful stitching found on textiles, filled with symbolic motifs that represent the different facets of Palestinian life and culture.

The first time I saw tatreez, which is a kind of embroidery, it adorned the front and cuffs of a Palestinian thobe, a traditional embroidered ankle length robe that was on display. A plastic ...

The craft of tatreez shows that there is more to Palestinian life than what is broadcast in news cycles, and Ghnaim believes that highlighting such traditions also helps humanise Palestinians and ...

That's how Manal Kalousa, a Canada Palestine Cultural Association board member, describes the traditional embroidery art form known as tatreez. The hand-sewn practice is centuries old and has been ...

Hanan Zarura, a master craftswoman of Palestinian tatreez embroidery, with a jacket she's been making at her workshop in the Palestinian refugee camp of Shatila, in Beirut, Lebanon.

With a colourful collection of embroidery threads, a group of women are gathering to learn the art of tatreez at workshops in London on Sundays through out Ramadan and beyond. (Michelle Both/CBC) ...

Each town has its own style of patterns and uses a bespoke collection of threads for use in tatreez. Palestinians trace their embroidery practices, as well as their thobes (dress), back to ancient ...