Homs-Sana
The old loom machine developed for the manufacture of traditional textiles over time, just like the sayings and stations that are placed on heads in rural areas, and the patterns resulting from the loom developed when making sheets, towels and mantles, according to what the craftsman Sami Al-Naddaf confirmed.
The craftsman Al-Naddaf, who was hosted by the Syrian Historical Society in Homs in a cultural symposium, for being the owner of the oldest handloom in the region, to talk about the heritage textile industry, showed that Homs has been distinguished by this industry over the years in terms of quality and accuracy, and its products have reached the world.
According to al-Naddaf, many historians of the history and conditions of Homs wrote about the textile industry there and the Arab loom, and that the products of hand weaving and traditional clothing in the province reached most countries of the world.
Al-Naddaf explained that the Homsi loom is distinguished from others in the rest of the governorates by the fees. Half of the looms in the governorate produced sayings (which is a traditional head dress), and the rest produced hatta, mantles, rugs and carpets.
He pointed out that the city of Homs was thriving with this craft, as there were thousands of looms in its old neighborhoods and tens of thousands working in them, and the town of Al-Zara near Talkalakh alone contained two hundred handlooms in which hundreds of craftsmen worked, and this craft formed a job for many residents of Homs.
At the end of the symposium, the participants discussed ways to save many of the traditional Syrian industries, especially hand weaving.
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