Ayah Khreiwesh walked around one of the rooms within Parlor Pink in Little Rock Sunday afternoon, showing people the purple, pink and blue tatreez piece that she has been hand-stitching for her 9-year-old daughter.

It took Khreiwesh about four months to stitch, and her daughter chose the colors. The piece she showed will be a chest panel on the girl’s thobe, a word that can describe different garments for specific occasions across the Arab world and in this case meaning a traditional dress worn by Palestinian women and girls.

Khreiwesh led and taught a tatreez circle Sunday. Tatreez is a traditional Palestinian art form that uses a cross stitch pattern and counted needlework to create elaborate patterns and color schemes on thobes, she explained to the audience.

The event marked the e

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