At the workshops, which form part of the “Threads of the Diaspora” project, we will be learning about traditional Palestinian embroidery (tatreez), how it is practiced and its meanings in the different regions of historical Palestine, through teaching by three Palestinian women embroiderers who are also refugees in Spain: Avo Zoughbi (Belén), Dalia Kayed (Gaza) and Saja Abdalhadi (Tulkarem).

The workshops have been designed as spaces for meeting and sharing, where we will get the opportunity to talk with these refugees and learn how to embroider some of the typical patterns from these regions. Each of them will be proposing four patterns from their respective regions, with varying degrees of complexity, so that we can continue embroidering together for Palestine and keep this unique cultural heritage alive. 

This program is supported by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID).