Widad Kawar very kindly gave us a book from her collection. ‘Palestinian Embroidery “Traditional Fallahi” Cross Stitch’. This beautiful and detailed book will be a very important resource for panel creation. …
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Lancet Palestinian Health Alliance Conference in Amman
We had a captive audience in Amman. “At the Lancet Palestinian Health Alliance Conference, Jan Chalmers presented a clear and succinct description of the Palestine History Tapestry project. She explained how …
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A Panel of Script.
“You have a great place in our hearts, Oh Jerusalem. You are beloved” A panel by Yasmeen Haj-Amer from Bir Seb’a [Be’er Sheva]
Mar 2014 Read More →Palestinians in Jordan have Joined the project
This March, I visited Amman to work with Basma Nazer, from Hebron, who has agreed to be the Pht co-ordinator for Jordan. Basma had arranged visits to embroidery groups that have shown …
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Panel updates
Women singing A panel of women celebrating at a wedding embroidered by the women of Albeit Alsamed embroidery group Gaza Both men and women sing at weddings, but the singing of …
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2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,800 …
Dec 2013 Read More →New Team Member in Gaza
We are pleased to welcome Samar AlHallaq as our new assistant coordinator in Gaza. She will be responsible for coordinating the spacer panels in Gaza for the tapestry. Samar is …
Dec 2013 Read More →The Saturday Sale
Thank you to those who came on Saturday to the Palestinian Bazaar. We had a good many people visit and a good fund raising session and we hope everyone is pleased …
Dec 2013 Read More →Polite but firm reminder
We are looking forward to seeing you on Saturday 7th December. Come and see to buy, Christmas gift packs, carved olive wood, embroidery, books and Fair Trade olive oil and …
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The Christmas Bazaar
Diary date please… Saturday December 7th at the Friends Meeting House 43 St Giles Oxford, between 2pm and 5pm we will be holding our Christmas Bazaar. We will be selling …
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