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Despite war and sanctions Heike Weber, a septuagenarian German woman, carries on with her mission to preserve the embroideries of Syria and Palestine. This effort preserves these countries’ cultural heritage while giving poor women the means to earn a living.

For the past 40 years, she has taught Palestinian and Syrian women embroidery, weaving, and dress design.

Heike weber biography of nancy

Before war erupted in Syria in , she employed 1, women whose fine work stocked an upmarket shop near Bab al-Sharqi (the Eastern Gate) in the Old City of Damascus. The shop was named Anat, after the ancient Semitic goddess of nature, life and death.

Anat had both in-person and on-line customers.

After the war, the shop closed and most of the women could no longer work.

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Today, are making embroidered items of clothing, handbags and wall hangings for display and sale in a room at the prominent Zawaya Art Gallery at St. Thomas Gate. Customers are few. There are no tourists, many wealthy Syrians have left, others do not have m