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Fourth Palestinian embroidery workshop in Madrid
November 29, 2024The workshop will be held on Friday, November 29, from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m.
MADRID
Casa Árabe headquarters (at Calle Alcalá, 62).
The workshop will be held on Friday, November 29, from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m.
5 euros (including materials).
In Spanish.
On Friday, November 29, we will be hosting the fourth and final workshop this fall to discover Palestinian embroidery. Join the initiative and embroider the panel of a Gazan dress with us. Sign up to take part now!
Using the scraps from different pieces that will be created at the workshops and gatherings, we will be producing a collective work: a panel from a Gazan dress connected with scraps in the diaspora.
Each participant will be given a piece of that panel to embroider, and they will also be able to choose different Palestinian embroidery motifs that can be donated to complete the rest of the work. These pieces will be connected through different threads representing the Palestinian people in the diaspora. From home or wherever you happen to be, you can also choose motifs of your own and send them in to us so that we can include them in the piece.
These workshops, designed to be spaces for meeting and sharing, will be held on two Fridays per month at Casa Árabe, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. (tickets are being sold for each individual workshop). Those who have already taken part in prior workshops may come and start embroidering right away. For those who come for the first time, there will be a theoretical presentation (15 min), about the tatreez in Palestinian history and culture, its variants by regions, its dimensions and meanings, plus a practical embroidery session.
To finish off the event, in commemoration of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, on the evening of November 30 we will be inviting those of you who already know how to embroider to participate in a marathon Palestinian embroidery gathering, also from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m., where we can all get together to continue making embroidery together and connect with other groups of embroiderers from different places all over the world.
From December 13 to 14, the collective work will be put together, in order to display it throughout the week of December 16. The panel will remain on display at Casa Árabe’s headquarters in Madrid during the winter holiday and month of January, along with the scraps which you embroider from home and from different locations.
The Palestinian embroidery motifs that you embroider at home and the instructions for making those embroidery pieces will be posted soon on the website. We will be publishing a PDF file with 17 models and the embroidery instructions.
