Abstract: In May 1948, approximately 700,000 Palestinians were exiled from their homeland when the state of Israel was created. Israeli settler colonialism in Palestine has been ongoing since then, as Palestinian land, culture, language, art, and food continue to be appropriated by the Israeli settler state. This essay examines one Palestinian traditional art form: Palestinian embroidery (tatreez) as a cultural tradition, a mode of resistance and refusal to cultural erasure, as a commodity of NGOs, and a mode of survival in refugee camps as a result of 1948. My research methods include a close literature analysis of secondary sources and archival research, an original analysis of an NGO website, and my interviews with Palestinians in a refugee camp located in Lebanon. This paper aims to contribute to existing feminist literature on the roles of Palestinian women in the Palestinian liberation and decolonization movement.