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I just added more one-of-a-kind banners to the sho

I just added more one-of-a-kind banners to the shop. Thank you to all who have supported and purchased one. Those banners are being packed up and mailed out. 🧿🧿🧿

WHY STITCH? Stitching is connection. Working with

WHY STITCH?
Stitching is connection. Working with our hands creates connections between our bodies and our minds. It literally lights up neural networks and somatic memories. It calms nervous systems. It connects us to each other. It connects us to our ancestors and lineages.

There are these beautiful historic images of Palestinian women stitching together. They’re getting water at the well, stitching. They’re forming collectives, stitching. They’re supporting their families in forced exile, stitching. They’re laughing, talking, learning, plotting, stitching. Always, stitching.

I wanted to have that. Not just with Palestinians, or women, but with people who want the same things I do: to be together in radical spaces, to make art as revolution, to keep our traditions alive, not as they were, but as we are now.

Being together outside of colonial time, productivity and pressure, is one way to build radical community. Our cultures are resistance.

We wanna make Portland SWANA stitch a space for us to stitch ourselves back together each month with Armenian needle-lace strawberries and Palestinian Tatreez patterns, and whatever stitches you want to bring, learn together, practice.

JOIN US. Next meet-up is 4/16 5-8 @cspp.pdx

Reposted from @impinsandimneedles

New one of a kind banners have just been listed. ✨️✨️✨️

Each piece has a bottom border of Armenian needlelace, which I have been relearning over the past month, motivated by our new monlthy SWANA Stitch gatherings. I've been dreaming of creating these pieces for over a year, and I am thrilled to see them be born into fruition. 🧿

I'll be adding and sharing more as they are completed. Much of my work is a celebration of the multiple and of repetition. I always appreciated the quote I saw somewhere: "Printmaking, like sex, is not solely for reproduction." I've enjoyed working on each piece individually and learning to improve my needlelace. Link to shop in bio, now under the new category on my site listed as "one of a kind".

The Another World is Possible banners are named for different poppy species.

The Armenian blessing banners are named for different grain species.

#screenprint #printmaking #banner #needlelace #armenianlace #armenianneedlelace #swanalace #swanastitch #poppy #poppies #wheat #bread #grain #blessing #armenianblessing #abetterworldispossible

On March 15, 1921 Soghomon Tehlirian, a survivor o

On March 15, 1921 Soghomon Tehlirian, a survivor of the Armenian Genocide, assassinated Talaat Pasha in Berlin, Germany. Talaat Pasha was one of the masterminds of the genocide. The aim, outside of vengeance, was to turn Tehlirian's trial into a political trial of those responsible for the genocide. This assassination, along with others of high ranking officials responsible for the murder of millions, was planned and executed under the name Operation Nemesis, named after the Greek goddess of divine retribution and vengeance.

These illustrations are from my first illustrated zine, simply entitled Operation Nemesis. A background of events entangling my personal family history, the assassination of Talaat Pasha, the trial, and the precedent it set in the world, along with questions left for the reader: where does justice come from?

#operationnemesis #tehlirian
#Nemesis #zine #screenprint
#handboundzine #celebratepeopleshistory #armenia #armeniangenocide #ginilits #poppies #justice #iforeseejusticeforourcommunities

Open to all SWANA folx and stitching styles from t

Open to all SWANA folx and stitching styles from the region. We’d love to focus on ancestral craft practice, but all needle crafts are welcome.

This is not a class, but if you need resources for basic stitching info feel free to contact us. All levels of experience welcome! We’ll help each other along as necessary.

Please bring a good mask (kn95 or higher quality) and we’ll have some on hand if you forget.
Email us with any questions @ pdxswanasitch@gmail.com

We’ll serve tea too!

This event is for SWANA (Southwest Asia and North Africa folx) only.

Please feel free to share widely in your circles!

Organized by
@entangledrootspress +
@bint.bandora
@impinsandimneedles w @cspp.pdx
Flyer by
@entangledrootspress

🪡🧿♥️🌹☕️
Reposted from @impinsandimneedles

Help us upgrade this extremely special nonprofit s

Help us upgrade this extremely special nonprofit shop! This 🇵🇸 owned nonprofit grocery store helps fund the community space next door: the @cspp.pdx

Stocking items from around the SWANA region, local artists, and freshly made staples from the owner's own mama like hummus, tabbouleh, and falafel! Come by and get your groceries, donate, and share this post! And check out this beautiful video featuring the one and only @bint.bandora

Reposted from @jerusalemrosemarket Hello habeebis. The JRM is humbly asking your help to guarantee our long term presence in the community. Please consider supporting and please share widely. Link in Bio of @jerusalemrosemarket

Came across this video I made of the first bound c

Came across this video I made of the first bound copy of Ancient Fires // Future Waters: Reclaiming Ancient Armenian Futures, a collaboration with @29cents

#armenianholidays #paganarmenia #screenprint
#bookarts #zine #bookbinding

Pouys: Plant Medicine of Ancestral Armenia is back

Pouys: Plant Medicine of Ancestral Armenia is back in stock. This zine was created by @29cents, Palig of armmad.com and myself.

Pics 2 & 3 by @communitycareapothecary

Process of creating the illustrations for the Pouy

Process of creating the illustrations for the Pouys zine created by myself, @29cents and Palig of armmad.com

30 hand-carved relief prints, 29 plants plus the cover depicting the weaving of aveluk (mountain sorrel). Each block was printed at the studio of @printquiltrx , then those prints were scanned and laid out with the text. The pages for the zine were then risograph printed, first run at @iprc_pdx and the most recent run @outlet. I then screen-printed all the covers, folded the pages, collated, punched the holes for binding, then hand-sewed them one by one with linen thread.

"Come, let us go, my son. Let us go to the fields where there are healing herbs, where birds sing beak to beak, where sparrows clap wing to wing. Without us, the stones shed tears. Our mothers and fathers are there. Their sweet voices are calling. Can we hear then and still not go? Come, my son, let us go to our homeland." From the song Kele Lao

#armenia #armenianplants #herbalism #swanaplants #swanaherbs #printmaking #reliefprint #screenprint #risograph #printingpress #letterpress #bookbinding #bookarts #zine #diaspora #culturalpreservation #pouys #braidingaveluk

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