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 ...

Each cross-stitch in this illustration symbolizes a Palestinian killed in the Gaza Strip since October 7. (graphic by and courtesy Maya Amer) Palestinian cross-stitch embroidery known as taṭrīz has ...

Roemie Hillenaar and Anca Stefan, the co-founders of Creative Fabrica. Image Credits: Creative Fabrica Creative Fabrica is best known as a marketplace for digital files, like fonts, graphics and ...

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, ...

Embroidery is the unique art of decorating fabric using needles, threads, beads and various other things using different stitching techniques. It involves creating patterns and designs by hand and ...

‘Figital’— going digital while also retaining the physical aspects of the handloom industry, such as paving ways to have the touch-and-feel vibe, by the customers and designers alike, was the key ...