Mayor Mamdani’s office honored the anniversary of the Nakba by visiting with Inea, a Palestinian survivor who lives in NYC. The video includes a clip of her showing her tatreez.
Tried for so long to achieve a longer tassel length, but this is what I ended up with in the end! I digitized a 13th-14th century pattern from Mamluk Egypt for the border design. As the caption says, please feel free to use it :)
hello! just joined and wanted to hi and share some of my work. i started tatreez in january of last year and have fell in love. as the child of a displaced palestinian, connecting to my heritage through art has been so meaningful. tatreez brings me so much peace and joy, excited to learn from you all and share
Let me start by saying that I know there are a lot of really good and properly sourced historical thobes in books and a few websites. I've checked a lot of those out already, but in my online research I came across vintage or antique cultural garments being sold on platforms like ebay and poshmark. I don't feel great about the ethics of the actual sale of these garments as they're almost never sourced, nor do I feel great about the idea of them disappearing into a private collection.
I archive things as a personal hobby/habit, and I found myself saving some of these listing images and adding them to my database with metadata. I had the thought that these should be shared for public reference, but most of these listings include little information about the garments and I'm not currently knowledgeable enough to discern the origins of a piece by looking at it. Would these images even be helpful without that information?
There's also the small issue of sharing some of these without permission from the sellers who technically own the images. I do have explicit permission to share images from one ebay seller, but that's not the norm.
I'm wondering what this sub thinks about sharing the images I don't have permission to use in an effort to preserve as much cultural heritage as possible? Would a digital archive like this be useful to any of you, or should I just keep it in my personal database? I worry that the lack of credit and information in general about the garments makes for a poor archiving process. The dubious nature of their histories also makes me worry about the ethics of a project like this.