People taking part in the training courses on traditional handicraft.
The Cultural Village Foundation-Katara is offering training courses on traditional handicraft aimed at developing a generation of skillful craftsmen in the country.
The first traditional handicraft training program is still going on at Katara Building 6. It includes training courses on Al-Sadu, gypsum decoration and embroidery held between 4pm to 8pm from Sunday to Tuesday and will continue until the end of April.
“The first training program on traditional handicraft aims at reviving the popular heritage and attracting Qatari youth, residents and children of Qatar to engage in traditional crafts in order to create a generation of craftsmen aware of the importance of the popular professions and their artistic and creative value, and possess the culture of quality, mastery and excellence,” said Salma Al Nuaimi, Cultural Counselor and Head of Heritage Committee at Katara. She added: “We have divided the crafts in terms of practitioners (female and male) and common crafts such as leather tanning and wicker wool; women’s crafts such as sewing, Al-sadu, perfumery and cosmetics, and men’s crafts, such as carpentry, goldsmith, sea craft, gypsum, pottery and blacksmith.”
“The Cultural Village Katara oversees the program and provides all forms of material and moral support to these craftsmen, to practice their traditional crafts permanently to the public through the possibility of allocating various places in Katara, activating tourism and preserving the cultural heritage,” she explained.
