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Monday, 28 February 2011

Reviving the dying Art of Kurar.




Photos found via Kurar house photo gallery.
Kurar is a type of embroidery using gold thread, Kurar House in Bahrain has set up as a venue to revive this dying technique, providing a space for the elderly women with the knowledge of Kurar to pass it on to a younger generation.
This complicated technique requires a minium of three women working togeather to produce a kurar ribbon.