Description
Tatreez and Tea
$80 (usually $95 + shipping)
LOCAL PICK UP ONLY during the open hours of the exhibit on Saturday 6/28 1-7PM or 6/29 4:30-8PM or one of the ticketed events (if you have a ticket)
Exhibit: Feryal Abbasi-Ghnaim: A Celebration of Palestinian Embroidery at SWANA Rose – more information HERE
Buy Wafa’s legendary book of oral histories, family stories, tea recipes and Tatreez patterns and support the exhibit! (this book is currently not available anywhere else!)
Palestinian tatreez embroidery is a centuries-old folk art, traditionally passed from mother to daughter over a cup of tea. In Tatreez & Tea: Embroidery and Storytelling in the Palestinian Diaspora, Wafa Ghnaim brings traditional Palestinian embroidery to life by resuscitating its roots as a powerful, provocative, and profound storytelling tool used by Palestinian women for hundreds of years to document their stories, observations, and experiences — including those from her mother, Feryal Abbasi-Ghnaim. With 47 cross stitch patterns; six complete sets of dress patterns; tea, coffee, and quince jam recipes; detailed traditional Palestinian embroidery techniques and rare northern Palestinian Arabic tatreez terminology — each design, history and meaning is documented and preserved. Tatreez & Tea is far more than a book about traditional Palestinian embroidery designs and meanings: it’s an oral history documentation of the Nakba survivors in her family that captures the essence of tatreez stitching circles as they once were and how to recreate them in exile, as well as a way forward to resurrect tatreez as a source of identity—one that guided Wafa as she created a home in the Palestinian diaspora.
Cover: Glossy paperback
Page Count: 448 pages