Aleppo-Sana
The Jasmine and Oak Festival continues its third day at the Sheraton Hotel, amid a remarkable public turnout, as the number of its visitors reached more than twenty thousand visitors from various commercial and industrial circles and businesswomen to view its exhibits.
The festival, organized by female entrepreneurs in the Aleppo Chamber of Commerce with the participation of 100 entrepreneurs, includes handicrafts, textile and wool handicrafts, embroideries, silver ornamental accessories, imitation, ready-made clothes, furnishings, pottery products, copperware, carpets, soap, Aleppian thyme, foods and sweets that reflect the creativity of the Aleppine woman and the skill of the craftsmen in it.
A member of the Women Entrepreneur Committee at the Chamber of Commerce in Aleppo, Hanadi Saati, explained in a statement to SANA reporter the importance of holding the festival to display the products of the participants in addition to specialized workshops for women entrepreneurs on developing skills for participants, the mechanism of their marketing, legal steps to protect property and organizing the commercial register, referring to the facilities provided to participants to display products, including the reduction of subscription fees. At the festival.
The Sana camera monitored more views of the participants in the festival who talked about their products and the role of the exhibition in marketing them, as Hory Salahin has shown that it has been participating in exhibitions and festivals for more than 12 years with handicraft products such as ornamental accessories, precious stones, beads and lulu rings and bracelets and put them for direct sale at prices She discounted, pointing out the importance of exhibitions and festivals in helping the participants to display products and sell to visitors and create a state of continuity in work and production.
Young Hassan Akkad talked about his participation in the exhibition with hand-made pottery products and the downloading of copper on them, which needs accuracy in the work that he learned and inherited from his father to contribute to preserving this traditional craft, pointing out that his works are sold at reasonable prices and received all the visitors.
Amer Afash, a participant with a group of perfumes, and Osama Rostom, a participant with craft products, pointed out the necessity of holding these events in the future that bring together the people of Aleppo with love and joy, while Anifus Gergian, participating with products and designs of handmade home furniture, showed the importance of the festival in providing products at symbolic prices and competition to achieve marketing and sale.
Muhammad Bilal Idlibi explained that he was happy to return to participate in exhibitions and festivals from which Aleppo was forbidden for years due to terrorism, pointing out that he participated in various types of oriental, antiques and copperware from the Syrian Aleppo heritage to inform visitors of them and to remind them of what the ancestors used to keep in terms of stamens and decorative products in their homes, while Taleen Microyan indicated that She participates in mosaic crafts made of artificial stone in the form of paintings and small collectibles as small souvenirs about Aleppo to encourage tourism.
A number of festival visitors expressed their admiration for the various products that indicate the excellence of the participants and who were able to present their products and crafts with all craftsmanship and creativity.
