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. Zain Masri ...

Growing up as a Palestinian in the diaspora, Zain Masri would spend summers visiting her grandmother in Jordan. One summer, Masri’s grandmother, who is a skilled seamstress with her own business, ...

Palestinian embroidery is a centuries-old tradition. Can digitizing hard-to-access patterns help preserve it for a new generation?

(This is a monthly column on tribal and folk traditions from across the country.) It would be difficult today to trace the lives and histories of the nine Toda embroidery patterns which Murray Emeneau ...