Palestinian Embroidery - The Traditional ((FALLAHI)) Stitch

The Palestinians have the right to be proud of the world for embroidering Palestinian dresses in a distinctive way that expresses a unique personality in its vision of shapes and colors as much as it is unique in its vision of the human experience.

This popular art, which has been inherited since the oldest eras of civilization, and which each village in Palestine developed in its own style, has a degree of delicacy, subtlety, and diversity that amazes us today with its originality. At the same time, it is derived from careful observation of nature and its forms, to modify it so that it fits with the stroke of a needle with what was accessible to women. Locally made of threads and dyes.

Taken as a whole, it represents joy in life, acceptance of it, and response to it, to the point that it almost seems as if it is the product of rituals that are fertility rituals, rejection of death, and rejoicing in the forces of resurrection in man, as in the seed and the udder.
Therefore, if one feels - while examining this beautiful photographic record - that something like a flame is always visible through the decorative documentation and its overlay, this is only because the Palestinian woman never engraved and embroidered a garment for herself or for others unless she was burning with a sense of the splendor and abundance of existence. This embroidery is an art created by an overwhelming love for everything living.