Palestinian Grandma
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Palestinian grandma preserving and sharing her love of culture, food and family. 60+ grandkids.
Every handmade shawl, thobe, and embroidered piece travels through many women’s hands, from the first marked pattern, to hand-stitching the tatreez, to carefully removing the marking threads, and finally sewing and finishing every last detail until it becomes a complete piece of art.
12/05/2026
Beautiful Spring in Tulkarm
Handmade by our artisans including grandma’s daughters, granddaughters and the ladies in the village buy hand-stitched tatreez, thobes Tulkarm Made
Rooted in our land
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الكنّة وحماتها… in Palestine, a flower where the daughter-in-law is the bloom and the mother-in-law is the stem that holds 🌺 grandma shares another beautiful story
30/04/2026
Village life-grandma cooking from the land, cousins laughing under the sunset, and these moments living inside us, never fading.
27/04/2026
Foraging wild herbs in Palestine 🌿
This is how we were raised.
The grandkids don’t learn from books—they walk the land with the aunties and village women, the real experts. Each one knows the land (Al-ard) like her own hands… what to pick, when to pick it, and how to feed a whole family from it.
We gather Hibiscus, khardal, loof, silq, hindbeh, baqla, khubeiza, hilayoun, zaamtot, purslane, capers, sage, mint, anise, zaatar, chamomile, sorrel… just some of what the land gives, there is always more.
This knowledge isn’t written down. It’s lived. Passed from woman to woman, generation to generation.
And it’s never just for us. We carry it back to elders who can’t go anymore, extended family and our neighbors
so they can still taste the land, still feel connected.
From Tulkarm, this is more than foraging.
This is memory, resilience, and a bond with the land that never leaves us.
إبحث عن مكان يقربك من الله فحيثما كان الذكر كانت الحياة
21-year-old granddaughter is handstitching a Palestinian flag dome embroidery, featuring the Key of Return, olive branches, orange tree, wheat, birds, keffiyeh, and Al Aqsa. The pattern was designed by Aunt Fadwa, an expert in pattern design, blending Palestinian motifs and colours, with decades of experience from Tulkarm refugee camp. She lived next door to Grandma in the camp before moving out many years ago and is now saving up for an operation in need.
You can buy a finished hand-stitched tatreez piece or Click the Etsy link in the bio to buy the pattern. Please support our artisan’s hard work by purchasing the pattern for one-time personal use, do not copy or redistribute. Every purchase supports Aunt Fadwa directly.
Our Palestinian grandma still makes these little rhymes from when she was young. ❤️
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