Award-winning entrepreneur Zain Masri has so far digitized about 1,000 traditional Palestinian cross-stitching patterns, which are now available for download on her platform, Tirazain. Zain Masri ...

Roemie Hillenaar and Anca Stefan, the co-founders of Creative Fabrica. Image Credits: Creative Fabrica Creative Fabrica is best known as a marketplace for digital files, like fonts, graphics and ...

Growing up as a Palestinian in the diaspora, Zain Masri would spend summers visiting her grandmother in Jordan. One summer, Masri’s grandmother, who is a skilled seamstress with her own business, ...

Palestinian embroidery is a centuries-old tradition. Can digitizing hard-to-access patterns help preserve it for a new generation?

For decades, the 44-year-old Chinta Devi had worked with thread – Sindhi stitches, Kutch patterns, familiar rhythms learned and relearned after she migrated from Bihar nearly three decades ago. But ...

Embroidery, once a painstaking craft mastered by skilled artisans, is now undergoing a remarkable transformation. From hand-stitched patterns to high-speed, precision-driven designs powered by ...