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JULY COLLECTION ⚡ Piece | No.2 🇵🇸🍊 Art By @bashargram

DES\Photograph of two women making Palestinian point lace seated outdoors on a balcony, Old City Jerusalem in the background. Orginal Picture source \ © School of Handicrafts, Jerusalem, Palestine,1930

Sliman Mansour | Al-Quds, 1983 | watercolors on paper

Sliman Mansour | A woman wearing a shawl 2015 | acrylic and oil painting

...Practitioners of Palestinian embroidery, mostly in women’s collectives, are keeping the tradition alive, preserving old stitch techniques along with Palestinian history. The thobe is one of the most important and recognizable symbols of Palestinian identity as well as a link to a deeply contested land. Women’s tradition of embroidering their own thobes became widespread across the Middle East starting in the ninth century, said Hanan Munayyer, a Palestinian American who wrote the book “Traditional Palestinian Costume: Origins and Evolution.”

...As the handicraft evolves, its practitioners see it in the context of history. “This is not the old heritage,” [Halima Fareed, member of the Surif Women’s Cooperative] said as she sewed the edges of a multicolored pillowcase. “It is our heritage, but it has been modernized.” The director of the cooperative, Taghrid Hudoosh, 55, nodded. “We are a continuation of our heritage,” she said.

Laila Shawa

“killing the flowers will not delay spring”