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SAUDI ARAMCO WORLD

Palestinian Embroidery Motifs is the perfect companion to Widad Kamel Kawar's Threads of Identity, published in 2006. It identifies, in Arabic and English, the numerous motifs used in the rich var...

INQUISITOR

Palestinian Embroidery Motifs Last year when we were working on the posters for Israeli Apartheid Week: Beirut we were researching symbolic references to Palestine, and came across this amazing bo...

EMBROIDERY DESIGNS GUIDE

Do They Reveal The Origin? So let's begin with: What is a motif? A motif is basically a design or figure that consists of recurring shapes or colors, as in architecture or decoration. It could also...

WASHINGTON REPORT

Palestinian Embroidery Motifs One of the strengths of this book is its presentation of simple patterns of the many embroidery motifs. For anyone interested in using these motifs in modern counted c...

QANTARA

Dresses That Tell Stories Judging by the patterns of the embroidery on a dress, one can determine where someone comes from - almost each Palestinian town has its own unique pattern. Now a newly pub...

LIVING WELL

A Treasury of Stitches "To the Palestinian women of the past and present whose needles magically create A Treasury of Stitches" A Treasury of Stitches is a wonderful memoir that unites motifs crea...

HAARETZ

A Stitch in Time In her book on Palestinian embroidery, an art she decribes as a 'pharmacy of the soul,' Margarita Skinner shows how certain patterns are inextricably linked to specific geographic...

JORDAN TIMES

The Art of the Needle The title of this book is an accurate description of its contents, but it hardly prepares the reader for the sheer beauty to be found within its pages. Of course, traditional ...

GULF TODAY

Motifs of Distinction The beautiful embroidery traditional Palestinian thobe remains the most potent symbol of this occupied and dispersed nation. The checked kuffiyah worn by liberation leader Ya...