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Traditional Industries |
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Inherited industries…The highbred history... Deep
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Pottery: |
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It has been appeared as a useful
substance, since the beginning of the human need for
utensils. The pottery, which is still manufactured in the
villages until the seventies, it is used in practical
purposes. It includes utensils with soft service in order to
keep the water cold as well as some other utensils for
cooking and mugs. The level and methods of production depend
on the quality of available clay, for example, if the
quality of the clay is low, the methods of making pottery
will be a primitive. Hais, a city located in Hodeidah, has
got fame by making such pottery |
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Pottery passes with several
stages before it comes ready to use, it begins with the
separation of soil from the impurities and then it is soused
in water basins made especially for this purpose. |
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Clay preparation:
The good kind of clay is preferable, the pottery maker
sometimes need to dig deeply in the ground to find it. |
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Dough:
This art should be on the ground by treading by feet and
using hands continuously till the clay become soft and ready
to be formed. |
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Al-Doliea: This
process is being done by a machine called Al- Dolab or Al-Gazal
Al-Lawlabi (spiral wheel). The process starts when the
pottery maker put a piece of clay at the top of Al-Dolab. By
using foot movement on the wheel with a quick regular screw,
the pottery maker uses his hands skillfully to press the
clay ball from the top to the bottom and vice versa. The
clay takes its form that was in the maker's imagination.
There are some products such as (Allorie, Censer, Jar, Mugs,
Al-Matleeb, Cups, Haisie and vessels use for Al-saltah,
Fatah and Al-Aseed). |
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Painting Pottery:
Painting is a substance
uses to give these utensils a beautiful golden paint that
helps finally to the pottery utensils to be ready for use.
In a rudimental way the preparation of painting being make
form (carbon) which can be found in batteries, only the
professional makers can do it. |
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There are many important places
cross-country have fame of making pottery like: Tahamah,
Hais, Zabeed, Al-Jarahie, Bait Al-Faqeeh, then the two
Ossabs, Raimah, Al-Hojarya area and many places in Sana'a,
Hadramout, and others. These areas have saved their
traditional style of pottery forms and their various bright
colors. |
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Yemeni Cheese: |
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Popular Markets are the most famous markets offering the
Yemeni Cheese, which is natural and home-made. Also, it is
considered as one of the most important elements of tourist
attraction; of course, it is one of the important Yemeni
economic incomes. Making cheese resounds in different areas
of countryside. It is home-made, it export to Yemeni cities
and different countries over the world also. |
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Yemeni cheese is considered as the most delicious breakfast
for many Yemenis and visitors who come to the popular
restaurants that offer Yemeni cheese breakfast and other
meals such as "Al-Sahaweq" the mixture of tomatoes with
Yemeni Cheese. |
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Preparation:
It is easy to be prepared, so that is why it is home-made.
It prepared by boiling milk of goats or cows on a stilly
fire, then it freezes by something called Leqah Al-Jadei
(lamb or young goat's food gets form its colon after
slaughter). |
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General
shape:
Discoid shape skews to red color with good smell and fresh
taste. |
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Prices:
Start from
YER 500 to 2,000. |
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Expire:
Yemeni Cheese expires after 15 days. The perfect Cheese
expires after 5 days. But the cheese with salt expires after
one month. Other feature of Yemeni Cheese is going to be
atrophy during its days and becomes cadaverous, but if you
put it in water will recall its pervious attractive and good
shape. |
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Boucle Basting Manufacture: |
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Basting has many stages. It is considered as a very simple
art, starting form the spinning
animals' wool to produce strings by sinning machine.
Thereafter, the Rug Basting Machine comes. |
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Spinning Machine:
It is a small woody machine. It has a
circular shape, a stick at the middle and aperture at the
bottom. The craftsman has to move that machines circularly
to get the wool as strings from the bottom of the machine. |
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Rug Basting Machine:
It is a rectangle woody machine seams like a
bed, but it is longer. The first step of the craftsman is
collimation in which the wide strings putting at the
beginning, then putting Gadlah strings. Al-Habkah
(knitting), thereafter, by which the craftsman can
control the size of the tapis. |
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The craftsman uses a separated piece
of wood between strings to help him to arrange and pave
them. The tapis adorn by carving. Tapis basting is taking
two days or more according to the kind and size of the tapis,
comparing with the rudimental machine. |
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This kind of basting is widespread at (Al-Deraihimi,
Al-hook, Bait Al-Faqeeh, Mandhar, Zabeed, and Al- Marawea'a)
and other villages and areas in Al-Hodeidah. |
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Basting Clothes:
Like Alhezam (bell), Alma'waz,
Almaqtab…etc. |
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Generally, basting is like other old
Yemeni handcrafts, it was connected with the family. There
are many families specialized with basting clothes. But the
countryside inhabitants specialized with rug basting.
However, Bell basting is the most kind required, because it
has beautiful carving and poise strings. |
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Basting clothes were inside the houses of craftsmen. But Rug
basting usually was outside houses, because of the large
size of the machines. Therefore, black and white strings
usually were used in rug basting. |
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Al-khuce Manufacture
(palms' leaves manufacture): |
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It is one of the most important handcrafts widespread in
Tahamah, especially in Al-khoukha, Zabeed, Al-duraimi, Al-Hodeidah,
other tourist areas and where the palms are. |
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Al-khuce Manufacture is very
precision, beautiful and perfect. It has a lot of products
that were necessary for life in the past. Al-khuce
Manufacture still one of the traditional handcrafts, it also
called palms or palms' leaves manufacture. |
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Scientific Definition of
Al-khuce: Vegetarianism textile manufacture. |
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Tools:
Hands, teeth, knife, needle, awl which work as needle and
other tools like scissors, water container to
inundate palms' leaves. |
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A lot of kinds of products produced from Al-Khuce (Palms'
leaves) according to its place in the palm, like: baskets,
dinning mat are produced from the middle. Mat, big baskets,
sweepers are produced from the green. And cages and chairs
are produced from the new leaves. |
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Kinds of Al-khuce:
The first kind is from palms leaves which are long and hard. These
leaves put in water to be witty that make it easy to be
shaped. |
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Coloring Al-khuce:
The process of coloring Al-khuce
is by natural colors that available in spices shops. |
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Coloring process starts in a big
utensil full of the required color, then putting Al-khuce
for five minutes, after that it must be putting on the
shadow. But the white Al-khuce gets the white color (turns
from green to white)
because it comes under the sun rays. |
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At the time of coloring Al-khuce, it must be putting
in the water to be soft, either the Al-khuce with
color or not. Because it makes it easy to be shaped and the
art start with making a perfect wide and long Gadeellah with
harmonious colors. To finish shaping Al-khuce, a long
needle with black wool string must be used for decorating. |
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Most of Al-khuce handcrafts are
spread in Tahamah marks, Bait Al-Faqeeh market, Hais, Al-Zaidya,
Al-Jarahi – Al-Sowaiq, Al-Marawa'a, Al-Miglaf and other
popular markets which became opened museums seven days a
week. |
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Kinds of Al-khuce products: |
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Al-Haseer:
It's like a carpet putting on the ground; it has different
kinds and shapes.
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- Al-Selal (baskets): Generally have circular shapes and
something deep; it has different sizes and use for transport
the dried dates or saving clothes. |
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Al-Jeeb:
It uses for saving food away from insects and dust. |
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Al-Mowhafa:
It's like a fan. |
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Al-Mashap:
It has a small circular shape and size uses to blow the
fire specially during baking or fanning the food. |
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- Huzba: It has circular shape like modern dishes in depth. It
uses for saving dried dates and transport it from place to
another. |
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Al-Shmasia:
It is a big circular hat. It puts on the head for protect
from sun ray. |
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- Al-Masrafa:
It uses as dinning mat. Also there is (Al-Mahgan) has the
circular shape uses for drying dates and pimples. |
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- Al-Baharia:
A
baby cradle and its different strings. Also
there are circular boxes have different shapes which use for
birds and chickens. |
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There are also many goods produce from Al-khuce for
different uses as to keep clothes and stuffs, to serve or
keep dates.. etc. Also, prayer carpet made from Al-khuce with
white color. |
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Making of Black and White Frankincense:
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There are
two kinds of frankincense (the black one and the white one)
each kind has two types: wedding frankincense – ordinary
frankincense. |
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Black Frankincense: Consist
of (Aloes wood, Ambergris, Al-Dhofr, Misk of
Ambergris, Sugar or Plant sugar, collected Crude Perfume,
Water or Rosewater, Gall oak, Cardamom and Carnation). |
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White Frankincense:
The same
contents of black frankincense but the color are bright,
because at the time of preparation the mixture of water and
sugar doesn’t reach yellow color. |
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Preparation: First
of all you have to pound (the Gall oak) in a mortar till become fragments or
powder as well as (Aloes Wood, Al-Dhofr, Misk …etc.). Second, Mix water with
some sugar then put them on fire until the sugar mixed with water and changes to
sticky. Third, add frankincense seasoning which is Aloes wood, Ambergris,
Al-Dhofr, and Misk of Ambergris. Forth, Move the mixture on a stilly fire. At
last add the collected crude perfume before hold fire. Prepare matrixes with
collected perfumes and putting frankincense in it. Leave it in the matrixes till
freeze, then divide them and put the frankincense in small utensils to be ready
for use. |
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Ordinary or Wedding Frankincense:
Wedding frankincense is made especially for weddings that
the seasoning is more and expensive, like: a perfect Aloes
wood, expenses perfumes, rosewater and plant sugar. But in
the ordinary frankincense, the seasoning will be from the
second class, and not expensive, little quantity. Also water
and sugar well be used. |
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Al-akhaddrin
Industry
(Making
of Alakhdarain): |
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The contents
of Alakhdarain are: Fruit of Black Mehlab, White Mehlab,
Spice of Perfume, Ozzab, Walnut, Carnation and Cardamoms.
The compound of these things called "Al-Dareerah Seasoning".
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Preparation:
Firstly, Pound the fruit till become powder, and then sift
it by sifter. Secondly, add the other contents after pound
them. Thirdly, put the mixture inside a big pot with a
perfect cover. Fourthly, put a small utensil inside the big
pot which contains the mixture. After that, bring a small
firebrand and put it inside the small utensil, and at the
same time put some incense of Aloes Wood, Al-Dhofr with
adding crude perfume mixture. Finally, divide this mixture
and put it in small utensils. Thus, Alakhdarain becomes
ready for use. |
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But if we add to Al-Dareerah a little perfume
like powder perfume or Babohenda, then mixed as well, it
will be ready for use after putting it in bottles. It is
better for woman's body before frankincense. |
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Alakhdarain's making is deferred from area to another or
from maker to another according to skills of the maker. |
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Al-tayeb
Industry
(Making of Perfume): |
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Perfume contents are like Alakhdarain's
contents. |
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Preparation:
Al-Dareerah
mixed with rosewater and added little perfumes like powder
perfume or Babohenda, then it makes like small balls putted
on nylon papers tied on the top. At the time of use it opens
to take the required quantity by finger. Then add some
perfume and put it on the body or behind the ear. |
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Perfume's
making is deferred from area to another or from maker to
another according to skills of the maker. |
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