Tatreez embroidery. Photo from Darza Studio, Jerusalem 12 Oct 2025
13:00 - 15:00
Workshop: Palestinian Tatreez (PFFA 2025)
Framer Framed is hosting a tatreez workshop as part of the Palestinian Film Festival Amsterdam. Join us on 12 October, the fourth and last day of PFFA to learn about tatreez, a traditional type of embroidery which forms an important element of Palestinian cultural heritage.
Tatreez has long served as a hidden language, using motifs and colours to convey identity, origin, and emotion. During political repression, women embedded national symbols and protest messages into their stitching. This workshop explores tatreez patterns inspired by the Palestinian landscape, preserving cultural values and spiritual beliefs. A focus is placed on the cypress tree motif, which varies by region and symbolises resilience and protection. Participants will learn to stitch the different variants of this motif, and are invited to design a new one which reflects the current symbols of resistance.
The session is led by Hilda Moucharrafieh, in collaboration with Waad and Ahd Hammad, founders of Darza Studio, who will join us via video call from Jerusalem.
This Sunday workshop is open to everyone, with a maximum of 10 participants. Registration is on a first-come basis, and all participants will be asked to complete a short questionnaire on their interest at registration. Sign up here.
About
Hilda Moucharrafieh is a Lebanese artist and cultural worker focusing on anti-colonial solidarities and collective well-being. Through site-specific interventions, she amplifies voices marginalised by western narratives and neo-colonial policies.
Waad Hammad is a Palestinian fashion designer based in Jerusalem. Together with her sister Ahd, she co-founded Darza Studio in 2019 blending Palestinian heritage with sustainable slow fashion.
Palestinian Film Festival Amsterdam
Virtual Remains marks the Palestinian Film Festival Amsterdam’s 10-year anniversary, with Gaza as its central focus. Unfolding over four days, our rich schedule of screenings features over twenty-five films by Palestinian directors with special introductions and post-screening discussions. Alongside it, four workshops, five dialogue sessions, a special culinary storytelling keynote and our ever popular olive oil tasting make up PFFA’s largest parallel event programme to date, exploring topics from creative resistance and intergenerational memory, to film pedagogy and embodied transmission. See full program at thepffa.nl.
To realise the programme, we are pleased to be continuing our collaborations with the arthouse theatres Kriterion, Lab111, Studio/K, and Ventilator Cinema, and to be embarking on new partnerships with the arts organisations De Appel and Framer Framed, and the collective dance studio Jakoozi. The 2025 edition is generously supported by Fonds21, with sponsorship from Tzkrti.
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