On the other Side of Resistance: Representing the Implicit Fragility of Embroidery through Origami

In partnership with Origami Palestine
Friday, June 22| 16:00 – 18:00

Origami is the time-honored Japanese folkloric craft of creating precise visual details through the folding of paper into fully realized representations of earthly objects. This meticulous practice which requires the utmost of patience and vigor can find a correlative partner in the Palestinian tradition of embroidery. Still, notwithstanding its relation to embroidery, it is a fragile product since it is made of paper. This fragility puts the effort employed and the resulting displayed beauty at the risk of perishing under the effects of surrounding conditions. Although embroidery enjoys relative strength with the material it uses to come to life, and in its inherent nature symbolizes a correlation to resilience and sustainability, the socioeconomic conditions of Palestine where it is currently produced renders this art fragile and sensitive.

The convergence and divergence between Palestinian traditional embroidery and origami will enable the Palestinian Museum us to use origami as an entry point to touch upon the embroidery concepts addressed in the Labour of Love exhibition. As we are taught the origami techniques, we learn to fold shapes imitating the Palestinian traditional embroidery patterns in a conceptual workshop that uses paper as a media available to children. This method aids children in the enhancement of their motor skills and mental development, to creatively and non-conventionally learn about Palestinian embroidery.

To register, please fill the online form here.