Traditional Palestinian ... designs and symbols once functioned almost as an identification card. The rooster, an old Christian symbol, indicated the wearer’s faith. A red bird on a blue ...

Every Palestinian region has its own unique embroidery design, and Zarura — who has never been anywhere in the Palestinian Territories — nevertheless knows them all. She's since become a ...

You typically see the amulet design in Palestinian embroidery and it usually has three ... while indigo is used for different shades of blue. Yellow-green is produced using the sumac plant ...

In Palestine, the embroidery of patterns using specific colours is called tatreez. The word means embroidery in Arabic but has come to represent the Palestinian style. Hanan K Munayyer ...

It combines colorful thread with common motifs found in Palestinian culture — including olive trees and pomegranates — resulting in a unique embroidery pattern. This art form connects ...

And a small museum in Jordan devoted to Palestinian embroidery is highlighting ... region has distinctive patterns, a lot of it in bright, dark colors like red, deep blue and green.

Of course, a Tom and Jerry design wasn't by any means traditional ... Tatreez is a centuries-old traditional Palestinian embroidery art form. It encompasses the variety of colorful stitching ...

The pattern she used for her motion graphic, she said, was inspired after visiting a traditional Palestinian embroidery and textile exhibit in Cambridge, United Kingdom. “The pattern I worked on ...

The four women compliment its soft pink colour and intricate tatreez, or Palestinian embroidery design. It's an inspiration for the group, who gather to weave needles through cotton canvases ...

Hanan Zarura designs a tatreez pattern in her workshop in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon. Every Palestinian region has its own unique embroidery design, and Zarura — who has never ...