The Spring 2025 offering of The Tahriri Series will begin on Thursday, April 17th. This class is for absolute beginners to the Tahriri stitch. You will leave this course confidently intermediate in your execution of Bethlehem's famous historic stitch.
The Summer 2025 offering of The Thobe Project will begin on Saturday, July 12th. No sewing experience or machine is required - Learn More & Register to join us!
Each cohort of The Thobe Project brings together a group of global practitioners utilizing generational knowledge and ancestral practices to embroider our stories.
The Thobe Project, formerly Tales of Tatreez, began as a long-held tatreez dream of mine. First launched in February of 2020, each class and cohort was designed to be project-based so that practitioners at any level of their journey would grow in their confidence and skills. In the Fall of 2020, the first cohort of The Thobe Project launched - the first thobe-making course to take a fully historic approach informed directly by our elders and ancestors. Since then, The Thobe Project continues to bring together global practitioners in each cohort embracing ancestral Palestinian practices and embroidering our stories.
The Spring 2025 offering of The Tahriri Series will begin on Thursday, April 17th. This class is for absolute beginners to the Tahriri stitch. You will leave this course confidently intermediate in your execution of Bethlehem's famous historic stitch.
The Summer 2025 offering of The Thobe Project will begin on Saturday, July 12th. No sewing experience or machine is required - Learn More & Register to join us!
Each cohort of The Thobe Project brings together a group of global practitioners utilizing generational knowledge and ancestral practices to embroider our stories.
The Thobe Project, formerly Tales of Tatreez, began as a long-held tatreez dream of mine. First launched in February of 2020, each class and cohort was designed to be project-based so that practitioners at any level of their journey would grow in their confidence and skills. In the Fall of 2020, the first cohort of The Thobe Project launched - the first thobe-making course to take a fully historic approach informed directly by our elders and ancestors. Since then, The Thobe Project continues to bring together global practitioners in each cohort embracing ancestral Palestinian practices and embroidering our stories.
Welcome to The Thobe Project
Teaching & inspiring individuals to reclaim the Palestinian tradition of thobe-making
The Summer 2025 offering of The Thobe Project will begin on Saturday, July 12th. No sewing experience or machine is required - Learn More & Register to join us!
See examples of student work from The Thobe Project below, and more on the registration page for each course.
What We Do
The Thobe Project is not about a revival of an ancestral practice. Palestinian embroidery has long been kept alive, but has also not been untouched by unjust circumstances as is true for many ancestral practices across the globe. Rather, this project is about relearning and reclaiming many of the aspects of Palestinian embroidery and textile practices that are now more difficult to learn simply because of how removed many of us have become from the daily practice of these traditions due to circumstances beyond our control. This experience is designed to empower practitioners with the skills and confidence to fully cut, embroider, and assemble their own thobe utilizing historical techniques. With this aim, more Palestinian families in the diaspora and exile will begin reclaiming these traditions so they can be newly passed on to future generations and carried back with us to a liberated Palestine.
In service of learning & participant experience, class sizes are small - sign up quickly to reserve a spot in an upcoming course.