Tatreez Photobooth

About this project

A photobooth that stitches.

Tatreez Photobooth is a photobooth that incorporates tatreez — traditional Palestinian cross-stitch embroidery — into your photo. Take a picture, answer a short set of questions about yourself, and the site charts a real tatreez motif onto your portrait in a thread color chosen by your answers. Every motif is built from an authentic stitched pattern, not generated freehand, the same way embroiderers have charted these designs by hand for generations.

A small embroidery ritual

Tatreez Photobooth

Take a photo, answer a few questions, and receive a hand-charted Palestinian cross-stitch motif — stitched, not generated, the way it's always been done.

Center your face in frame

Your photo stays on this device — nothing is uploaded.

Your thread

Your motif