# Cup of Camellia

Islamic Cross-Stitch Kits

- **Location:** Ellicott City, MD (serves ~100 mi)
- **Services:** Other, Food & Drink Cart

- **Storefront:** https://bzar.app/vendor/stitchables
- **Book this vendor:** start an inquiry on the storefront (https://bzar.app/vendor/stitchables); booking runs through bzar (discuss-then-pay).

## About

We hear the story again and again, grandmothers tell us that they learn to stitch at school or at home when they were young, but the newer generations didn't learn that skill, and that the traditional knowledge is going away.  So we started teaching cross-stitch so the cycle wouldn't break.  Our cross-stitch kits are inspired by Islamic tiles and calligraphy from mosques around the world, bringing our traditions and elemental skills back to connect the younger generations with the older ones.  Cross-stitch is a meditation in itself, a way to do zikr with every stitch.  A benefit to everyone, young and old, men and women.  Bismillah!

_BZAR is a community marketplace for the DMV (Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia). Questions: hello@bzar.app_