Stitching the Intifada - Rachel Dedman goods on a quiet lake

on a quiet lake

Richly and attractively illustrated with new images by French architecture photographer Cyrille Weiner

this book explores how developing a direct relationship with materials can help us find new languages with the potential to supersede those we have inherited from a narrow lineage of authors

The New Alphabet School is a traveling school for solidarity between different ways of knowing with stops in New Delhi

art historians

Stitching the Intifada - Rachel Dedman goods on a quiet lakeTatreez elaborate hand embroidery is an ancient Palestinian craft characterised by remarkable beauty and complexity. Beginning with an introduction to the regional diversity of historic Palestinian dress, Rachel Dedman traces the politicisation of embroidery after the Nakba of 1948. From its evolution into a symbol of the nation, to its powerful presence during the First Intifada, and reimagination by contemporary artists, tatreez in Palestine