Material PowerPalestinian Embroideries

The significance of embroidery has changed radically over the last 150 years. Material Power maps this complex evolution: from embroidery as a rich village tradition, transformed by the advent of modernity, to its politicisation after 1948, and critical re-interpretation by contemporary artists. Woven into the social, economic and political fabrics of its time, embroidery is a practice both shaped by and reflective of the changing conditions in Palestine over the course of the twentieth century.