Tatreez & Tea – Palestinian Embroidery Workshop
- Date: Sunday, March 22
- Time: 13:30–15:30
- Venue: Vikakjelleren
- Registration: Participation is free, but you must register via the event ticket link.
Welcome to an embroidery workshop with a practical introduction to traditional Palestinian cross-stitch embroidery (tatreez fallahi). There will also be a talk on identity, belonging, and resistance. As a participant, you can choose from a variety of embroidery motifs to create your own button. Making a button costs NOK 50.
Places are limited. If you are unable to attend, please let us know so someone else can take your spot.
About Tatreez Falastini
Tatreez Falastini, Arabic for Palestinian embroidery, is an ancient embroidery tradition with deep roots in Palestinian culture and history. It is typically used on the thobe (the traditional Palestinian dress) and on decorative textiles. Each region of Palestine has its own distinctive patterns. As a result of displacement, occupation, and oppression, tatreez has also become an important symbol of Palestinian identity, belonging, and protest both in Palestine and among Palestinians around the world. Palestinian embroidery is inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Palestinian tea and small biscuits will be served during the event.
About the organisers
- Samiha Nejmi is Palestinian and grew up in Lebanon. She has worked as a tatreez teacher for the organisation Beit Atfal Assomoud in Lebanon.
- Leila Restan is Norwegian and Palestinian. She is a social scientist with an interest in Palestinian history and culture.
- Gada Azam is a political scientist and human rights activist with an interest in Palestinian culture and history.
- Kristin Sunde is a landscape architect who lived in Bethlehem in the autumn of 2018. She volunteered at the Palestine Museum for Natural History, where she learned tatreez.
The name Tatreez & Te is inspired by the Instagram account @tatreezandtea, run by the American-Palestinian Wafa Ghnaim.
