The carpet of the wilaya of Souk Ahras
The carpet reflects the way of life of a society and its development in the course of historical periods in which the man lived in a specific geographical zone. In the course of different historical periods, the carpet of Souk Ahras expresses the elements of the society in its various elements of daily life under form distinctive plant and animal elements and every form or element reflects a party of life which gives us one technical specifications in the carpet in the course of the development of the society across history
- The name of the carpet: Hidden mamecha
- Elements of the carpet:
- Wool extracted from the sheep
- Preparation of the Purification of wool, washing, cleaning then spinning mill
- Transformation of the girl of different length
- The last process is the process of tincture and colouring of wool.
- Job to be weaved
- Thread preparation
- Kaddache, Khellela
- Length (2-4) metres
- Breadth (1,5 – 2,5) metres
- Thread of normal wool uses kg of wool of (50-70)
- Thread of wool and the hairs of nanny goat use (40-50) kg of wool
- 16 knots/1 cm 2.
- Red, white, black, yellow, blue, indigo, brown, green and orange
- Geometric forms, triangles, squares, feminine jewellery (al-Khalakhal, Nouaoush)
- Animals turtle’s back, Oum Janibeh and others.
- Apple trees, trees and different flowers.
- Five months of daily work (1 craftsmen).
- Two months of daily work (02 craftsmen).