Tatreez table runner, red and black
By Rania Barakat · Ramallah, West Bank, Palestine
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A long table runner with alternating Beit Nuba motifs along the centre. Red and black thread on off-white linen. This is a pattern I have made versions of since I was fifteen. It works on a dining table or as a shelf runner.
Six weeks. The motifs repeat but each one is stitched separately — there is no shortcut.
The person who made this.
I do tatreez — Palestinian cross-stitch. My mother taught me using thread and linen she kept from before I was born. Every village has its own patterns. Mine are from Beit Nuba, the village my grandmother left in 1948. The patterns are how we remember a place we cannot visit. I work on commission pieces and I work on thobs — the traditional dress. I will not make tatreez that is not rooted in a real pattern from a real place. If you want something decorative but invented, I am not the right person. If you want something that means something, send me a message.