My creative works are most often inspired and centered by Tatreez, Indigenous Palestinian embroidery and textiles. Palestinian Tatreez, an organic part of our culture, also shares imperative values with gender, racial, and land justice movements.
Wearing, creating, and working with Palestinian
Tatreez is a powerful remembrance and way to connect with our ancestors, our
communities, and ourselves. I want to thank our grandmothers for leaving
this full, rich, emotional, and visionary legacy. A legacy of traditions,
family, culture and identity. A legacy of hope, sumud, and land stitched in Tatreez.
I am so grateful to the Palestinian Tatreez Artists from yesterday, today, and tomorrow. They are the true archivists of our herstory, history, identity, and culture. Each new stich they lay, designs an exquisite blueprint for our futures.
All quotes shown above were said/written by Micaela Kaibni Raen.