Labour of Love: Embroidering Palestinian History

Palestinian folk fashion is a catalyst for exploring the social history of Palestine as a
whole, not solely the history associated with women’s work. Through the centring of
women’s labour within this narrative, Palestinian embroidery (tatreez) is woven into the
society’s social, economic, and political fabric across the different historical stages that
produced and continue to produce it. Thus, tatreez itself documents and narrates
changes across time. 

In the Palestinian context,tatreez is regarded as an artefact that bears witness to stages
of social, political, cultural, and economic transformation. We, therefore, find tatreez in
every Palestinian home, carried with Palestinians to every corner of the Earth.