Embroidery and Beyond Cultural heritage provides a means for a dignified life By Shirabe Yamada

A morning at Surif Women’s Cooperative starts early in the pristine village nestled in the Hebron hills. In the sunlit workshop, Najah and Halimeh, veteran seamstresses, spread open a roll of fabric in preparation for production more

Mother of Pearl A Traditional Palestinian Craft By Saleem Zougbi

Although traditional Palestinian artefacts focus on embroidery and olive wood, mother of pearl artefacts belong to the more skilled domain of handcrafts produced by Palestinians in the Holy Land. Most sea shells includ more

My Silk Road: A Memoir By Tania Tamari Nasir

From the sitting room in our family home in Birzeit, I sit to write this personal memoir  - something of my experience with Palestinian embroidery, my own “silk road” so to speak. Exquisite carpets, colourful embroidered more

Palestine in Fashion By Christ’l Leclercq-Safieh

When in September 2005 British Vogue carried an article by fashion designer Bella Freud titled “The Fabric of Life” about our extraordinary voyage of discovery to Palestine, we all knew that we had succeeded in putting the uni more

Hebron Glass A Centuries-old Tradition By Nazmi al-Ju’beh

Just a few meters before the city of Hebron, at the end of the short distance between Halhul and Hebron city, visitors will notice a number of factories that produce coloured glass, representing several centuries of Hebron traditi more