Three patterns, and what each one carries.
Nothing here is decoration. Each of these is a specific thing, from a specific place, that meant something before it was ever engraved.
كوفية Kufiya
The keffiyeh is two patterns at once — a fishnet lattice through the body and a bold olive-leaf border along the edges. The lattice is often read as the fishing nets of the coast; the leaf border as the olive groves inland. Worn together they map the whole country onto one square of cloth.
شجرة الحياة Tree of Life
The sarw, the cypress, worked in counted cross-stitch. It is the oldest motif in Palestinian embroidery and the one most often placed at the chest panel of a bridal thob. Because it is counted stitch by stitch, it is stepped rather than curved — and we keep that stepping in the copper rather than smoothing it into an illustration.
القدس Quds
Al-Quds. The walled city, the dome, the minarets and the terraces, engraved as a continuous view that closes on itself. There is no front and no back to it, which is the point.