Palestinian Embroidery in a Troubled Landscape: Reading Rachel Kainy's "Embroidered Village".
Palestinian embroidery is the subject of ongoing interest, much of it on the part of Palestinian collectors, artists, and researchers. The present article focuses upon the works of Rachel Kainy, a young Israeli artist, who paints to perfection worn-out remnants of embroidered Palestinian thaubs (tra...
| Published in: | Israel Studies Review Vol. 40; no. 3; pp. 56 - 77 |
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Berghahn Books
Winter2025
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