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“The History of Gauze is Haunting Me

Fabric is culture, culture is passport, and home should not be bloody.”

Next image is a poem, “Because of Us” by Em Berry who is also known as @ skinhungry. The poem goes as follows:

“This morning I learned

the English word gauze

(finely woven medical cloth)

comes from the Arabic word غزة or Ghazza

because Gazans have been skilled weavers for centuries

I wondered then

how many of our wounds

have been dressed

because of them

and how many of theirs

have been left open

because of us”

The third and final image is a section of text that says: “A few weeks ago, I came across the knowledge that gauze - the word and the cloth itself - comes from Gaza. Gauze, that lightweight open-weave cotton fabric, breathable, forgiving, found in any well-stocked First Aid Kit and certainly any medical establishment - it's from Gaza. It was originally made of silk and used in clothing, and now it is made of silk, cotton, and other kinds of fabrics. But the origins lie in Gaza, a place now being utterly decimated, where the hospitals are bombed, where surgeons are having to perform on children, often their own, with no anesthesia, no medications, no sterilized environment and often no...gauze. To have given the world something synonymous with care, with healing, and to be deprived of it so utterly - is that not the saddest, most haunting thing?” End I.D.]

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