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DUHOK, Kurdistan Region - Dozens of craftsmen and women from Iran and its Kurdish areas opened the 6th exhibition of its kind for handicrafts and textiles in Duhok's downtown Family Mall on Sunday.
The exhibition is expected to continue for 10 days and aims to introduce the works to locals and visitors alike.
“We carry our works in a special way for our city, Sanandaj. What we craft in Sanandaj, we send it to Duhok city. Our materials that are on display are well-welcomed here. Everything brought to this exhibition is hand-made. Nothing is artificial,” craftswoman Maryam Muradi from Sanandaj, Iran, told Rudaw on Sunday.
Duhok is popular with tourists from the rest of Iraq, neighboring countries, and elsewhere in the world.
Handicrafts and textiles are also part of the Kurdistan Region's culture.
Ahmed Mohammed is one of the visitors of the exhibition, and told Rudaw that he is interested in the goods that cannot be obtained in the Region.
“Every year, they open an exhibition to display their hand-made materials. They bring food, clothing, sweets, and household appliances. They come every year and we are happy for them to come back here. Some of the things that they display cannot be obtained in our country, in Kurdistan,” said Mohammed.
The organizer of the exhibition, Zaniyar Lutfulla, explained that their hand-made products are different in terms of quality and pricing.
“The beloved residents of Duhok, in general, are interested in hand-made materials. Our works are different. Kurdish women's clothing they the craftswomen have brought to the fair are hand-made from Sanandaj city. The price of the materials is suitable for the visitors, so they buy them,” said Lutfulla.
Kurdistan’s many nomadic tribes are famous for producing rugs, which are made with thousands of small knots, and kilims, which are woven on a loom. This tradition, along with the production of numerous other handicrafts, ceased in the late 1980s when former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein launched the genocidal Anfal campaign that destroyed 4,500 Kurdish villages.
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