How Palestinian women turned tatreez into a living archive of homeland, memory and resistance —stitching what colonialism, exile and genocide have sought to erase.
Thank you so much for your beautiful article on the ancient history of tatreez. The poetic nature of each stitch - women stitching and creating an ongoing forever remembering
This is exceptionally well-written and so informative. You do a great service by bringing this work to attention. It is an unparalleled skill. How you describe it gives it especial value. Thank you!
Some years ago (2019), as the curator of art (Artist Watch) for the online arts magazine Escape Into Life, I featured the Palestinian-American artist Jordan Nassar and his hand-embroidered artworks. He describes them as addressing the intersection of craft, language, history, (geo)politics, and technology. The beautiful artworks are encoded with Islamic symbols that he has mapped out in patterns. (The feature is still available at the arts magazine's website.) While his textiles are different in purpose and technique, they, too, have meaning and are helping to preserve a traditional craft. I don't know of other men who are artists who are engaged in Palestinian hand-embroidery.
What a beautiful and moving tribute to Palestinian women’s art. Thank you.
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Thank you so much for your beautiful article on the ancient history of tatreez. The poetic nature of each stitch - women stitching and creating an ongoing forever remembering
But so much more
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Love the description, would have also loved to see some pictures of those different patterns of stitches, I'll find some in the www.
This is exceptionally well-written and so informative. You do a great service by bringing this work to attention. It is an unparalleled skill. How you describe it gives it especial value. Thank you!
Some years ago (2019), as the curator of art (Artist Watch) for the online arts magazine Escape Into Life, I featured the Palestinian-American artist Jordan Nassar and his hand-embroidered artworks. He describes them as addressing the intersection of craft, language, history, (geo)politics, and technology. The beautiful artworks are encoded with Islamic symbols that he has mapped out in patterns. (The feature is still available at the arts magazine's website.) While his textiles are different in purpose and technique, they, too, have meaning and are helping to preserve a traditional craft. I don't know of other men who are artists who are engaged in Palestinian hand-embroidery.