Nassar bases his work on Palestinian tatreez cross-stitch embroidery, typically sewn on panels that are joined into garments or used on domestic items. The cotton-on-canvas panels stretched and ...

Many patterns online, for example, show cross-stitch, a type of embroidery that creates stitches shaped like an X. But there are dozens of traditional stitch types that are used, Ghnaim points out.

AMMAN — The Palestinian Culture Centre on Tuesday opened its eighth annual Cultural Exhibition featuring a number of culturally significant displays. The exhibition aims to revive the feeling of the ...

Award-winning entrepreneur Zain Masri has so far digitized about 1,000 traditional Palestinian cross-stitching patterns, which are now available for download on her platform, Tirazain.

The New York City-based textile artist, born in New York to a Polish mother and a U.S.-born Palestinian father, works in tatreez, a Palestinian cross-stitch embroidery.

Every stitch and every color, she says, represents a Palestinian killed after the attack led by Hamas in October last year that left more than 1,200 people dead, according to the Israeli government.