Sunday, November 14, 2010


Bedouin women are very creative in designing different shapes to decorate their houses. In the past when they have tents, the women worked together to knit and sew a long piece of handcraft to hang around the tent. Nowadays and because Bedouin are residing and living in permanent houses, they kept the same tradition. Women will gather and work together and each time they finish something they give it to one of them till they finish working. They design a very long piece that sometimes reaches 15 meters or more to put it all over the guest room hanging from the ceiling like what you see in the picture to the right. They use many colorful threads that they bring from the Bedouin Thursday market in Beer Sheva. Women are proud of their creative works that are very expensive and hard to find. 
   Also, women design different handcrafts to be hanged over the doors and the windows. The sticks in the pictures are also used to dance with in weddings.    

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