The Tatreez Institute, also known as Tatreez & Tea, was founded by Wafa Ghnaim in 2016 to preserve, research, and document Palestinian embroidery, dress, and history in the United States.
Dedicated to safeguarding intangible cultural heritage and preventing cultural erasure, the Institute stewards a growing collection of traditional dresses and headdresses from Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, and Jordan rematriated from dumpsters, estates, and households across the world. This study collection facilitates the research that is published by the Institute, and is stewarded through Palestinian hands. Through research, education, and restoration practices, the Institute ensures that the art of embroidery in Palestine, inclusive of the practices, skills, knowledge and rituals as inscribed by UNESCO in 2021, continues to be studied, practiced, and transmitted across generations living in exile.
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