The 50 years of work, care and investment that Widad Kawar and her family have put into her collection has helped save Palestinian and Arab heritage from the threat of extinction. Now it is up to all of us to keep this heritage alive, not only as a source of beauty and cultural identity, but as the basis of sustainable livelihoods for current and future generation of artisans.

Tiraz won’t become a reality without the active engagement and support from a community that cares. You can help by making a contribution and by spreading the word to you friends and family. Let everyone around the world share the beauty and story of our costume traditions. Let’s together make sure they are traditions for the future.

We are campaigning to raise $100,000 on Indeigogo, a crowd funding platform that allows everyone to donate, to enable us to open our doors to the community by 2015. Click on the link on the right to go to our Indiegogo page, or find out how you can support us directly here.