Dhamar Governorate - Traditional Handicrafts

Traditional Handicrafts

In addition to farming, the people practice traditional handicrafts such as weaving, embroidery, and making copper and pottery utensils in sizes suitable to different purposes such as cooking and water storage; gold and silver jewelry is still being made in a number of districts, as are making jambiyyahs.

Extraction of building stone is also among the important crafts of the governorate. Excellent stone quarries are scattered through all regions of the governorate, and the stone is marketed in the capital Sana’a and in other governorates of Yemen.

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