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Looking Back at the First Half of 2025: A Letter from Handmade Palestine

Looking Back at the First Half of 2025: A Letter from Handmade Palestine

Looking Back at the First Half of 2025: A Letter from Handmade Palestine
2025

Looking Back at the First Half of 2025: A Letter from Handmade Palestine

Updates on Our Work in Palestine Mid-2025: The first half of 2025 has been tough—sales are down 44% and site visits by 60%. Under Israeli occupation, our artisans face closures, rising costs, and l...

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Leather Tatreez Tote
Artisans

New Crafts, Restocks & Resilience

Despite extreme closures across Occupied Palestine, we’ve managed to add beautiful new crafts to our collection—including brass earrings, tatreez totes, and micro mosaic jewelry. Movement is severe...

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Handcrafted Leather Wallet
Crafts

Our Father’s Day Gift Guide + A Little Extra from Us

This Father’s Day, honor the men in your life with gifts that carry meaning—like handcrafted leather goods and olive wood kitchenware made by Palestinian artisans.🎁 Plus, get a free handmade gift w...

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White Tatreez Palestinian Flower Shawl
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Celebrate Eid Al-Adha with 15% Off Site Wide

Celebrate Eid Al-Adha with 20% off our handmade collection!Discover meaningful gifts stitched with tradition—plus new designs, 15% off worldwide with code EID2025, and free shipping to the US.

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Traditional Black White Keffiyeh
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World Keffiyeh Day: A Symbol Too Powerful to Erase

Celebrate the keffiyeh on World Keffiyeh Day—a powerful symbol of Palestinian identity, heritage, and resistance. From traditional scarves to handcrafted accessories, our keffiyeh collection honors...

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Celebrating Artisans: The Nasrallah Family
Artisans

Celebrating Artisans: The Nasrallah Family

Our Celebrating Artisans series continues with Ghada Nasrallah. Nestled in Beit Jala, the Nativity Bells Olive Wood Factory is a small family workshop where the Nasrallah family has been crafting o...

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Women in purple thob with tatreez embroider
Artisans

International Day of Tatreez: New Crafts and What Your Support Means

Today is International Day of Tatreez, a day of importance in Palestine.  Let's go back and talk about its history and the meaning of tatreez and share some of our new products with you.  A HISTOR...

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Happy Easter from Palestine: New Crafts
Artisans

Happy Easter from Palestine: New Crafts

This Easter Sunday, we’re celebrating hope, resilience, and the beauty of handmade tradition from Palestine. Explore our newest designs — from embroidered pouches to elegant table runners — all cra...

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Jerusalem, Palestine
Christian

The True Meaning of Easter: Sabt al-Nour

This Easter, as the Holy Fire of Sabt al-Nour rises in Jerusalem, we’re reminded of the unshakable hope that lives in Palestine — even through war, occupation, and loss. From the land where Christi...

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Courtesy of This Week in Palestine. Hills of the West Bank, Palestine
Christianity

The True Meaning of Easter

This Easter, from the land of the first Christians, we share a message of hope. Even in the midst of war and occupation, Palestinian communities continue to create, resist, and believe in a brighte...

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