This Week Trends
Includes: Pottery and ceramics, pottery colouring, engraving and decoration of gypsum products and artifacts
In Bahrain, the village of A'ali is known for its pottery industry, which began about five thousand years ago. The clay is supplied locally from Riffa...
Once leather has been bought in a natural dark or light brown colour from Sargodha, the process of colouring and tanning begins. J Wilson, an Englishman, in Gazetteer of the Shahpur District, 1887, has described the process at length....
Calico is one of Iran traditional prints on the cloth in which the design is transferred through putting the format or stencil dipped in print ink or the paint on the cloth and tapping on its back side. In...
Month In Review
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- Bamboo
- Baskets
- Batik
- Blacksmithing
- Boats
- Calligraphy
- Carpets
- Ceramics
- Copperware
- Decoration
- Dolls
- Dyeing
- Embroidery
- Felt
- Fibre
- Filigree
- Footwear
- Furniture
- Glass
- Hats
- Horse craft
- Jewellery
- Kites
- Knives
- Lacquer
- Leather
- Locks
- Masks
- Mats
- Metal
- Miscellaneous
- Mosaics
- Mother of Pearl
- Musical Instruments
- Painting
- Paper
- Puppets
- Scents
- Sculpture
- Shell
- Soap
- Stone
- Tattooing
- Textiles
- Weaving
- Wood
- Wood Carving
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Hot Stuff Coming
Moarajh (mosaic)
Mosaic involves cutting pieces of colourful wood such as ebony, maple, berry, sycamore ash, teak, shemshad, jujube, betel nut, walnut or pear into shapes...
Guitar making
Guitar making is a form of lutherie (from the French luth, or lute) – the craft of building stringed musical instruments that also encompasses...
Kākahu (Māori cloaks)
Despite having a limited range of raw materials and natural dyes, Maori weavers created a remarkable assortment of kākahu (cloaks) that ranged from prestigious...
Blacksmithing
Blacksmithing is one of the oldest handicrafts practiced in Kuwait. Previously, this craft was much used to make and maintain all kinds of metal...