Sunday 5 July 2015

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.

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  1. i like it so mach because she reflect the impotent material culture for jabalitride

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