In an aim to keep the traditional art forms alive, MODA Mall is offering an alluring cultural insight to visitors, by hosting talented Bahraini women from the Al Kurar House to showcase handmade traditional handicrafts during Ramadan. The famous Kurar house in Bahrain is a renovated old house, used for reproducing unique local embroidery as well as a production center for traditonal female handicrafts.
Al Kurar is a handicraft art that was practised at home by ladies in the city of Al Muharraq. The embroidery is carried out in the presence of a head woman (called Qataba) and two or three other women (called Dawakheel). The unique, diligent and beautiful form of embroidery done with golden threads is clearly visible in the ethnic Kurar dresses.
A MODA Mall spokesperson commented: “We are targeting the local and expatriate community to come and experience this age old art form which is part of the intangible cultural heritage of Bahrain. These valuable forms of art that offer amazing insight into the country’s deep rooted cultural traditions should be preserved and appreciated by everyone.”
All visitors are welcome to visit and witness this traditional art form. The handicraft women are present on Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays until Eid, at the MODA Mall’s Ramadan tent.
