[Today’s donation was made to Black & Queer Intersectional Collective. Click here to see my Pride & Joy Project 2020 Daily Donations List.] From 2009 until 2016, I lived and breathed belly dance, specifically American Tribal Style (ATS) by the San-Francisco-based FatChanceBellyDance (FCBD). It was the only reason I chose to move […]
Assuit
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Tulle bitalli (“net with metal”) is an Egyptian textile art. There are references of embroidery with metal wireframing in the Bible, but this specific textile, also known as assuit, named after Assuit/Asyut, the Egyptian city that produces it) was first officially documented in the 19th century.