Craft Industries

Dhofar has crafts , traditional industries and arts ,for example: carpentry, blacksmithing, grazing, livestock, agriculture and trade. it has industries like  Boat  industry, pottery, dairy products, fishing nets, sweets, gold ,silver industry, wood and leather industry.

Magmar is a burner made of red clay in the typical rectangular shape. The clay is from Dhofar. It is too brittle to be turned, so pottery to transform it into rectangular shapes and fill it with many holes to create a jewelry product. These pottery burners are made by women in the southern Dhofar region. The patterns are traditional. The Dhofar terracotta pottery is easy to recognize its intense red color, which is made by firing in an open fire. the seller burnes a fire to check the customer's pleasant of the Magmar and to show them the high quality of it. therefore, the Magmar is ready to for burning frankincense.

 Dhofar is characterized by craftsmanship with industries, especially in the state of Salalah and Sadah and Thumrait made the most important thing there incinerators (censers) attractive and colorful, and bowls of water and other materials required by the people and the needs of visitors and tourists, in particular, is done manually without the wheel in addition to industry pottery decorated by individuals highly efficient and they make forms such as boats, cars and planes.

dhofar mountain

Dhofar is characterized by beautiful mountains where inhabited Aljebalin. It is known for its population of mountain folks breeding animals, especially Cows and sheep. There are a lot of mountains in the province of Dhofar and the most famous Jebel Samhan,Jabal Qara and Jabal

 Moon.

The oldest of settled this mountain tribes are native to the region since ancient times, then settled later other tribes presented in historical periods simultaneous tribes Al-Omar.The population living in the mountains economy depends on seasonal livestock and agriculture mainly breeding, as there is a simple production of dairy products, honey, meat sale .In recent years become a trade and tourism projects share in the economic activities in the mountain.

From the most important seasonal crops in the Dhofar Mountains lemon and sugar cane, and some vegetables for daily consumption. Some extracts (wild mushrooms) which is spreading in some places. As well as the seeds of some plants that grows in the foothills.

Dhofar Mountains is a favorite tourist destination for many local tourists, and coming from the Arab Gulf states, especially in the autumn season, where green pastures and valleys of water and eyes made up, and the most favorite tourist destinations Mount Darbat,Mount Hmrer , Mount Etienne and Ain Hamran .

Dhofar Mountains is the best place for tourism

traditional cloth

.Yashmagh is name of the thing man put to cover his head. It is made by woman hand tailoring

Traditional cloth of Dhofari Men(Jabali ). It includes a shirt and Wazar which are handmade . They are also wear a dagger and bring a gun with a small bag made from animal leather to keep 
.their tools inside it. The bag locally called Haban

                                      

Dhofari people speciallyJabali consist of tribal society and the big tribes are Mahri Shahari ,Kathiri and Hakli . Those people have special languages called Jabali and Mahri .They live in Dhofar Province which is located in the southern region of Oman and East corner of the Arabian Peninsula. Jabali people still live simple life on the mountain with their Cows ,camels and goats these are the source of food and income of those local people . They are generous and honest people.They still
.maintain their dress and customs    

Zvari uniforms for women

Women in Dhofar wear address called locally Thoob . Also, they paint and draw different lines and shapes on their faces to be pretty . It is a kind of traditional make up from plants and nature . They make from in different
.social events such as wedding ,Eid ,parties ... etc
The head cover (Sheila): consists of a piece of cloth hanging down to below the chest and is made up of several colors and are usually of:  beautiful forms
.and pulls the beholder homogeneous

























Kids wearing nice clothes where the women work different forms of designs. Clothing consists of a dye Indigo. And this dye has special benefits. Women use hand-made cosmetic material. It has good
.and natural materials