Cee’s FF Challenge: Sense of Touching
Here is my entry for this week’s Sense of Touching.
Egypt is filled with many handicrafts, and these are part of Egyptian cultural identity and heritage. We had a chance to visit the stone carving factory and carpet manufacture.
When we think of a factory we usually don’t think of workers sitting on the ground for hours chiseling stone. Beautiful work so thank you for sharing your photos.
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Love to see anything made by hand. Beautiful, Amy!
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Fabulous, Amy. I feel absolutely drawn to each scene here. The monochrome is a gem.
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beautiful workmanship
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Such beautiful craftsmanship. The black and white image is beautiful.
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Thank you, Nancy. I like the B&W image, too.
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It always amazes me how many different sorts of crafts there are. It makes me happy seeing how many artisans still take pride in their crafts/art, but it’s quite difficult to make a living from it.
janet
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They worked pretty hard in the factory. One small stone vase there was at around 100 US dollars.
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What I wonder is what that comes to per hour. For instance, when Navajo woman weaves a rug, it can take her days and days or even months. If she sells it in a gallery, the gallery gets half generally of the money. It really isn’t a huge return on time even if it’s an expensive rug.
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Beautiful images and video, Amy. That must’ve been a fascinating experience to witness. I do hope that the craftspeople make a good living and are well compensated for their amazing artistry! Thank you for sharing.
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Thank you for commenting. I hope they made good living too. Some of these small hand made vases are 100 US dollars.
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Wow… wonderful.
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Amy, what wonderful photos and video you have for this week. Marvelous entry 😀
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Thank you for the inspiring theme, Cee!
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I would have enjoyed that. The middle photo shows very fine lines, some feat.
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Thank you, Paul. It must takes a lot of experience and skills to make these artcraft.
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Yes, I think my patience would be sorely tested if I had to be working so finely.
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beautiful images, Amy! thanks for sharing 🙂
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Thank you, LolaWi!
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Terrific series, Amy. Love the monochrome image especially.
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Thank you, Jane for spending time here.
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Beautifuf artcraft Amy, but not easy to carry back at home, so thank you very much for sharing 😊❤️🙏🏻! Take care my friend 🥰
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You’re so right, not easy to bring them back. I managed to get some light stuff. 🙂 xxx ❤
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Mary and I like local crafts.
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I remember some of your collections.
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A few years back Bob (my late husband) and I had gone to the Dominican Republic. We went to a Laramar “factory” to watch the locals making jewelry out of the beautiful stone. The factory was really only 3 or 4 people but they worked hard and were busy!
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Thank you for sharing your travel experience. I can imagine the detail works of making jewelry.
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