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Tatreez patterns: cypress, moon, amulet in three stitch scales

Tatreez — Tall narrow cypresses worked in counted cross-stitch, each a stepped triangle on a short trunk, standing in a row with a small eight-pointed star between every pair, the linen ground showing through the stitch holes., counted silk cross-stitch on hand-woven linen, worked without a drawn design

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Reading 1Cypress trees
Reading 2Eight-pointed star
Reading 3Chest panel

Tatreez is Palestinian cross-stitch: silk counted thread by thread on linen, no drawn design, carrying a village's own named motifs across the chest and side panels of a dress. These nine render cypress, moon and amulet in fine counted stitch, bold chest-panel scale and a contemporary colourway. Ask for a different motif, like a feather or a star, and the same three stitch scales carry it.

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Frequently asked questions

What size do these print at?
Each pattern is drawn at A3 proportions with an even margin, so it prints clean at A3 or scales to A4.
Can I get a different motif, like a feather or a bird?
Yes — the direction field takes any motif, such as a feather or a bird, and the same three stitch scales render it.
What's the difference between the three stitch scales?
Fine counted stitch gives a dense, thread-by-thread field; bold chest-panel scale enlarges the motif the way it sits on a dress front; contemporary colourway keeps the counted-stitch grid but opens it to a brighter modern palette.
Is this respectful of real Palestinian tatreez traditions?
The set draws on the counted cross-stitch technique and named motif vocabulary of Palestinian tatreez as a style reference for a generated print, not a reproduction of any specific village's or embroiderer's own work.

About toile

This page is a showcase and a starting point: nine samples already rendered, three readings of the pack crossed with three styles, each shown at the size and ratio it was made for. Take any of them further on the wall with a few words, or ask for all nine again under your own direction; a sign-in keeps what you make, and it is free while Toile is new. The recipe behind each sample — the subject, the style, the palette, the framing — travels with the image rather than staying private to the render: it is in the alt text of every sample and in the page's own structured data, so a search engine reads the same handles a person would.