The design strategy centres on three principles: recognition, sovereignty, and contemporary expression.
Recognition leverages the 8-pointed star's existing visibility—even in its appropriated form—as an entry point for re-education. People who encounter the pattern may sense familiarity without knowing its Palestinian origins. This creates an opportunity to restore proper cultural attribution through contemporary identity design.
Sovereignty means extracting the pattern from its commodified circulation and restoring it within authentic Palestinian visual language. The design doesn't reproduce the motif as decorative element but engages with tatreez methodology itself—the systematic, calculated construction where every stitch is counted and patterns emerge through angular, mathematical precision.
Contemporary expression translates traditional craft principles into forms that function across digital platforms and physical spaces. Rather than replicating tatreez stitch-by-stitch (which becomes illegible at small scales), the design distils the 8-pointed star into solid geometric forms that maintain pattern legibility at any scale—from social media icons to environmental applications.