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Taught and made for over thousand years in Iranian generations, Calico is the art of block printing on Fabric.With organic colors and printing blocks made from walnut, pear and hawthorn trees,the professional craftsmen create repeated designs on high quality cotton to design a gorgeous, colorful tablecloth, tablecover, bed coverlet, or pillowcase.Calico is not just pushing some stamps on some cloth. It is a continuous process in which each design is hand-carved on a separate piece of w …

Backgammon is one of the oldest board games  for two players. The playing pieces are moved according to the roll of dice , and a player wins by removing all of their pieces from the board before their opponent. Backgammon is a member of the tables  family, one of the oldest classes of board games in the world.In Persian, the game of backgammon is known as takht-e-nard. Its exact origin is unclear, but it is thought to have first been played in Mesopotamia and Sumer about 5,000 yea …

The word ‘souvenir’ is a French word meaning memory or remembrance. Souvenirs can also be called mementos, keepsakes or tokens of remembrance and can be any object that someone keeps hold of, for the memories it brings back.  Although most often associated with gift shop products such as miniature replicas of famous UAE icons, including Burj Al Arab , the Burj Khalifa and the Atlantis Hotel, a souvenir can be anything that has been acquired by someone during their travels. It …

Turquoise inlayThe turquoise is ancient, yet again and again it finds itself back in fashion. Its shining sky blue is one of the most popular trend colors in the world of jewelry and fashion.Turquoise fixing is one of the branches of handicraft which holds the beauty and attraction of a good handicraft product. It is believed that the antiquity of this industry goes back to about seventy years ago. At that time a Yousef Hakiman known as Mohammadreza started the craft of turquoise fixing …

Seven Sands of the EmiratesUnited arab emirates has seven emirates : Ras al-Khaimah Umm al-Quwain Fujairah Sharjah Dubai Abu Dhabi Ajmanif you have plan to visit UAE soon and you like to take some souvenir back home for your collection or as gift for family or friends , its not  it is not necessary to visit each emirates in order to bring something interesting from them.7 Sands frame is a popular UAE souvenir, which can be called the symbol of Dubai and o …