Where are Handmade Palestine's Palestinian Keffiyehs Made?

When people ask where our keffiyehs come from, we give them an honest answer — and the honest answer has a history in it. 

Our keffiyehs are woven by a family whose connection to this craft began in Palestine in the 1950s. The founder of the factory learned his trade working at a manual loom textile factory in the West Bank, mastering the mechanics and traditions of keffiyeh production before opening his own factory in Jericho, Palestine, in 1958 — one of the first of its kind.

That factory operated out of Jericho for nearly a decade. It was a place of work and of pride, built by a man who understood that the keffiyeh was not simply a textile but an embodiment of Palestinian identity, resistance and presence on the land.
Then 1967 came.

The war that year is sometimes called the second Nakba — a second wave of forced displacement that pushed hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes. The founder of this factory was among them. He was expelled from Palestine by Israeli authorities, his factory in Jericho left behind. He arrived in Jordan with the knowledge of his craft and the determination to continue it.

He rebuilt. In Amman, he established what became the first keffiyeh factory in Jordan —
carrying the Palestinian tradition of keffiyeh-making across a border that had been drawn
through his life without his consent. For over thirty years he ran that factory, weaving keffiyehs and keeping alive a craft that occupation had tried to sever from its land.

He passed away in 2006. The factory is now run by his children.

It is one of only four Palestinian keffiyeh operations still in existence anywhere in the world — a fact that sits somewhere between extraordinary and heartbreaking, given that the keffiyeh is one of the most recognised symbols on earth. The domestic industry in Palestine has been decimated by cheaper imports, by movement restrictions, by the accumulated pressures of occupation.

Each factory that remains is an act of persistence.

We work with this factory because we believe that the story of the keffiyeh does not end at a border. Displacement did not erase Palestinian craft — it carried it forward, into new places, under harder conditions, with the same hands and the same knowledge. The keffiyeh you receive from us was made by a family that has been weaving Palestinian heritage for over sixty years, across two countries, through two Nakbas, without stopping.

That is who makes our keffiyehs. You can shop the full keffiyeh collection here.

This blog was adapted from the original story written by Seevana Hawari.