Building on research from my extended essay, this project explores the relationship between tatreez (Palestinian embroidery) and the paper diagrams that simultaneously preserve and obscure the craft.

Visually interpreting the words of Wafa Ghnaim, the outcome encourages the reader to search for fragments of anecdotes between grids, facilitating a tactile experience of learning and reflection which subverts the diagram’s typical role as a reductive, flattening format. I aim to illustrate tatreez as a living craft, directly entwined with the women who stitch it.