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The first sample panel

The Women’s Child Care Society in Beit Jala Bethlehem has stitched the Nativity Story panel measuring 85cm by 50cm. The women who worked on the panel are Suhair Handal, Marcel …

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Sunbula “Spike of Wheat”

We are very pleased to announce that Sunbula, the Jerusalem-based not for profit Fair Trade organization that supports Palestinian craft groups, have agreed to partner us and assist us in achieving …

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Stitches on the olive tree

Update of funds. We have doubled since our last post. See the thanks page.

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Watch the Olive Tree Grow

For every £100 a cross stitch is added to our olive tree.  Watch it come into colour and fruition as the donations grow. See the Thanks page. The Olive Tree …

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Facebook…

….we are linked to Facebook and invite you to like it and keep up to date….

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A list to stitch

Yara Hawari, a British born Palestinian MA student, is planning to research and list historical Palestinian events suitable for panels and stitch. In October Yara will be starting a PhD in …

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A fundraising and awareness event

Friday May 4th will be our first official fundraising and awareness jamboree We will be promoting the Palestinian History Tapestry Project at Oxford Brookes University OX3 0BP during a Development …

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Samples of embroidery

Palestinian embroidery is amongst some of the most beautiful there is.

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We are on a roll…

…Ahed Izhiman an artist from Jerusalem has submitted his first sample panel drawing.   An olive harvest, a lovely interpretation of a peaceful and calm family activity of days gone by. It …

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Our first sample panel

Amjad Ghannam a Palestinian artist living in Jerusalem has created our first sample panel, a water colour sketch. It is Saladin entering Jerusalem in 1187.  We are so pleased, it is a …

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