In recent years women in the Israeli-occupied West Bank have embraced traditional embroidery as a way to support their families while their husbands and male relatives have found it increasingly hard to find work.
A hand-embroidered dress will fetch between 1,200 and 1,500 dollars on the international market, and the women are typically paid around 300 dollars for the work, which is usually done over a period of one to two months, according to figures from a cooperative in the town of Al-Bireh near Ramallah.
Asi, who has been practicing her craft for more than 20 years, now teaches it to other young women at the cooperative, helping them to weave abstract and vaguely floral patterns out of colourful yarn, and golden coins.
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