One of my knitting teachers just told me about this extremely good archive of traditional palestinian pixel art https://tirazain.com/archive
Tirazain | طرازين

Tirazain | طرازين
@hannah It's beautiful, very beautiful, but it's sad to remember that their prevailing religious doctrine prohibits depicting animals in art at all. People forced and beaten into an anti-human framework carrying on the simple, natural and inevitable.
@hannah Strong "Jet Set Willy" vibes in a couple of those..
@hannah thank you for sharing! This reminded me of carpets my grandparents have, with quite uncanny ancient pixel art. One of the carpets had symbols quite similar to the ones in the archive, but I unfortunately don't have a photo (might be able to get one in a few days). I have a photo of a carpet using completely different pixel arts, and wow, I can imagine seeing those in a pixel art horror game now... The possibilities!
@hannah And this is a nifty little tool that lets you "draw" and experiment with these embroidery motifs. https://jazilan.com/sanasel/birds/
Birds

@hannah These are beautiful!
@hannah beautiful!! Thank you!!