Although Mohammed Assadi doesn’t know the difference between knitting and crochet, hooks and needles, or wool and cotton, he wrote a very interesting article for Reuters.com in August about how tapestry crochet is helping support industrious women in Palestine.
Palestinian tapestry crocheter and kippah
The short piece says that women in villages like Deir Abu Meshal on the West Bank have been producing religious headgear for their Jewish neighbors (and for export to the US) for years. The women told him that they enjoy making kippah while talking to each other and can tapestry crochet five a day. At $3 each, that’s only $15, but money goes further there than it does in the US.
Isn’t it wonderful that tapestry crochet not only helps put food on their tables, but also brings people together?