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 ...

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

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, ...

Traditional embroidery (chasu) in Korea has a history of more than 2,000 years. Since prehistoric times, the need for sewing led ancient Koreans to use needles made from fish or other animal bones to ...

(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 ...