Using a wooden loom that dates back more than a hundred years ... A craftsman is unique in making silk velvet in Homs.

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Alone behind an old wooden loom, the craftsman Sami Naddaf sits on his loom, which dates back more than a hundred years, to a traditional painting that dates back to a time when the Syrian textile industry flourished and its fame reached the role of international fashion.

Aba from the grandfather of the craftsman Naddaf, 65 years old, the textile industry, and he exclusively used the silk Hatta industry, which is one of the popular folk dresses of the head that was prevalent in a period of time when it is now a popular heritage.

Nadaf made it clear in a statement to SANA correspondent that every Syrian countryside has a dress code, and in the past Homs became famous for the hummus loom and the textile industry.

From his place in the Al-Hamidiya neighborhood, the craftsman moved Nadaf to the Armenian neighborhood because of the terrorist war to pursue his profession with passion and pleasure to sew the silk station with its various types and patterns, and he says: “I work today to pass this craft on to future generations as an ancient Syrian profession where it has evolved over time in terms of patterns and motifs, but today it is in Evolution has developed and it is necessary to preserve it in order to stay connected to our heritage which includes a lot of creativity and manual mastery. ”

Among the types woven by the illustrated Hatta or the sea and worn in the governorate of Sweida and others, which are red in addition to the two arches and also worn in the governorate of As-Suwayda and Al-Sadiyah in the town of Sadad and Al-Mahroudiya in the town of Mahrda and the kebbe worn by women in the Qalamoun area and the slave to men in the Qalamoun area and the Shukriya in Idlib and Aleppo.

The craftsman Nadaf also weaves other silk types, such as gowns, women's shawls, and men's accessories. As for the types of embroidery, patterns, and motifs that are added to the hat, shawl, and cloak, they are numerous, and according to demand, which are known by many designations such as “the rose, pergola, flower of the stranger, sweat of myrtle, and others, where they are added with silk threads of colors. Multiple and sometimes with threads mixed with gold or silver water on demand, which gives it a high value.

On the sections of the loom, we tell us a strange vocabulary in the age of the machine, where the old manual loom consists of the foldable made of apricot wood and stitches that are installed on the folded, sided, dead, abrasive, debossed, and intruses under the legs for the inscriptions, rudder, shuttle for the edge, for the bush, potters, silk threads, overflow and below, and the file and basalt stones to tighten the silk threads Which is called AppLog in addition to pipes and cupboard to fill the strings.

The artisan Nadaf participated in many local exhibitions, and most of what he hopes is that these crafts will be passed on to generations and that the heritage crafts will be revived in cooperation with craft associations in Homs, finding a suitable tourist place and promoting its dissemination in all governorates.

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