Tatreez Garden generates images inspired by Palestinian embroidery and interwoven with plants important to Palestinian ecology, culture, and diet.
Tatreez, a form of Palestinian embroidery practised for generations, is a wearable art form of identity, resilience, and connection to land. Traditionally crafted by women, it carries cultural memory, agricultural motifs, and often encodes biographical details about the wearer.
By reinterpreting traditional cross-stitch patterns with generative AI, the project explores and extends practices and patterns into computational craft. Users participate in this evolving archive, by generating artifacts based on curated archives, and paritciapting in Palestinian collective memory, and the continuties of Palestinian culture across media, time, and space.
