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Eternal Crafts: Communal Weaving

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Adding to Ithra Museum’s ongoing 2025 crafts theme, Eternal Crafts: Weaving explores the layered and ever-evolving world of traditional crafts, focusing on the intricate relationship between time, skill and collective effort that unites artisans across generations. This exhibition celebrates the art of weaving as both a material and spiritual practice—one that demands high levels of craftsmanship, patience and communal knowledge passed down through generations. Through weaving, threads are interlaced to express identity, tradition and cultural memory.

The exhibition highlights weaving as a living and dynamic heritage, drawing attention to techniques practiced in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia particularly in al-Hasa, where local techniques of weaving have evolved in response to the environment and daily life. The palm tree emerges as a central material in this context, bridging beauty, utility and precision.

This edition of Eternal Crafts: Weaving features the commissioned installation Tirhal, a suspended, three-dimensional textile work created through a collaboration between Jordanian designer Abeer Seikaly and local artisans from al-Hasa.

Tirhal draws inspiration from local weaving traditions and geometric motifs rooted in both Bedouin tent design and the structured patterns found in palm-based craft. The work flows between stillness and motion, with shifting densities in the weave allowing light to pass through and cast shadows creating a sense of movement within a physically static form.

As viewers move around the piece, its meaning shifts: it can be seen as a curtain, a room divider, a floor covering or an architectural element. Tirhal exemplifies how traditional craftsmanship and contemporary design can converge in a spatial language that transcends function—embracing time, labor, and collective sensibility in the making of meaning.

31st Oct - 25th Feb

6th December 2025

All Ages

Arabic, English

Museum - Gallery 0

+70 more sessions

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The Artists

Meshal Al-Obaidallah

An independent artist, curator, and film producer

Abeer Seikaly

Jordanian-Palestinian artist, architect, designer, and cultural producer

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