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.

Her father would collect thobes—tatreez-embroidered loose-fitting dresses worn by Palestinian women, ultimately amassing an extensive collection of unique, traditional tatreez pieces crafted ...

Like layers of history, the hand-stitched Palestinian embroidery known as tatreez, traditionally used to ornament Palestinian dress, tells of towns and villages lost, old customs abandoned ...

“At that time there was the emergence of the Intifada dress, stitching and embroidery, where people stitched the Palestinian flag into their clothing.” Some of the motifs sewn onto clothes at ...

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

started collecting Palestinian dresses when she was a child in Jerusalem and founded a museum dedicated to Palestinian embroidery. She talks about what has been lost and what endures. While the ...

The word means embroidery in Arabic but has come to represent the Palestinian style. Hanan K Munayyer, a scholar specialising in Palestinian dress, identifies one of the earliest examples of ...

Palestinian history is reflected in so many facets of life, especially in its fashion; its embroidery recounts a narrative of rich heritage and culture passed from one generation to another. I decided ...

“We recently sewed a wedding dress for a young woman in America ... Hanan Zarura shows off a Palestinian embroidered thobe, a traditional garment worn in the Arab world.

“Tatreez is a cross-stitch embroidery that Palestinian women use on their dresses,” Hussaini said. “Some of my dresses with Tatreez have been passed down through generations from my ...

Ghnaim embroidering with her mother, award-winning artist Feryal Abbasi-Ghnaim, while presenting Palestinian embroidery at the ... to displaying Palestinian dress that I have not yet seen.

Simply sign up to the Style myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. One day in July the voice of the celebrated Lebanese singer Fairuz drifted up from the Palestine encampment at ...