earthling<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bethlehem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bethlehem</span></a>, 1880-1900<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tatreez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tatreez</span></a>, meaning <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/embroidery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>embroidery</span></a> in Arabic, refers to a specific cultural heritage practice of Palestine.</p><p>An ancient tradition, its heyday was in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but it remains Palestine’s most vital living tradition. Regionally diverse, ‘every area of Palestine, down to neighbouring villages, had their own approach to the cut, to colour, stitch style, textile motifs’. This dress has been embroidered in the Bethlehem style.</p>