Embroidery Techniques from Palestine | Instruction Manual to Palestinian Tatreez Book from Sunbula

€85,00

The first technical manual to be published on Palestinian embroidery techniques, this book catalogs a wide range of embroidery techniques used in the dressmaking in the Historic Palestine and aims to revive the stitches that have fallen out of use today, such as Tahriri (couching) and Manajel (binding). Each Palestinian embroidery technique is provided with background information collected from older embroiderers in Palestine and the Diaspora, and step-by-step, illustrated instruction for easy learning. The book also features essays on historical, contemporary, and technical aspects of the embroidery in Palestine, and photographs of the traditional costume collection at the Birzeit University Museum in the West Bank. Made through years of museum and field research, it is also an unofficial sequel to Tania Tamari Nasier and Widad Kamel Kawar's 1992 publication, "Palestinian Embroidery: Traditional 'fallahi' Cross-stich". Arabic and English. 136 pages. Written by Tania Tamari Nasir, OmarJoseph Nasser-Khoury, Shirabe Yamada, with Widad Kamel Kawar. A Sunbula production, 2019. Dimensions: 9 x 10.5 in | 23 x 27 cm, Weight 800g All purchases from Handmade Palestine support fair trade artisans sustaining their livelihoods and we donate profits from every purchase to a local not-for-profit to plant trees and protect Palestine’s environment.

THE ETHOS

In the face of systemic economic closure, the act of making is an act of resistance. Our Traditional Craft track is anchored in the preservation of the Palestinian identity through the hands of the people. This is not mass-produced "folk art"—it is the survival of the master-craftsman.

THE PILLARS

1. **The Women’s Cooperative**: Featuring the work of *Manjel Ma'qoud*, a female-led embroidery guild formed in response to the economic suffocation of 2024. Their Tatreez is a living language of village history.
2. **Hebron Fire & Earth**: Hand-blown Phoenician glass and hand-painted ceramics from the last family workshops in Hebron, utilizing techniques refined over five centuries.
3. **Bethlehem Olive Wood**: Carved from the prunings of ancient trees, ensuring the tree's health while providing livelihoods to the Holy Land Handicraft Cooperative.

THE COMMITMENT
Every piece in this collection is a direct-from-source empowerment. We donate profits from every purchase to local not-for-profits like *Mashjar Juthour* to plant native trees and protect the Palestinian environment.