Stories

Suzani is mostly a story of family and women, where a nurturing motherly love was translated through the art of embroidery and endured the ages. With roots of Suzani creations spread across Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, each little girl in each village would be taught by the women in her family...

Samira Mahboub shares with us her journey of self-discovery through her ancestral wisdom, how motherhood has enriched her life and her role as an entrepreneur & how her shared Moroccan roots with husband; Zaid, influences their handmade Amazigh rug brand. 

Ancestral wisdom, for me, is the culmination of knowledge accumulated by our ancestors over thousands and thousands of years, based on millennia of observation of the natural world, observation of relationships between all living beings, the interconnectivity of all living beings, and as humans deepened their observation of these things, knowledge systems were created. Innovations in agriculture, astronomy, and engineering: this is what I would call ancestral wisdom. What is ancestral wisdom for you? Ancestral wisdom, for me, is the culmination of knowledge accumulated by our ancestors over thousands and thousands of years, based on millennia of observation of the...

What is about sound that ignites within us, something so ingrained in our beings? Women have a profound pelvic-vocal link, that cannot hide the truth of one’s emotions. Kala says she can hear in any voice whether a woman can speak freely with full self-expression.