{"id":38338,"date":"2015-04-29T14:07:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T11:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/?p=38338"},"modified":"2015-04-29T14:24:37","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T11:24:37","slug":"wood-inlaying-a-traditional-craftsmanship-of-damascenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=38338","title":{"rendered":"Wood inlaying, a Traditional craftsmanship\u00a0of Damascenes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Damascus, SANA- Damascenes are known and endowed\u00a0with a good reputation in wood inlaying craft, the\u00a0ancient Syrian craftsmanship in which the\u00a0grandfathers innovated a lot of methods to improve\u00a0and maintain it to be shifted to the grandchildren\u00a0throughout time.<\/p>\n

Since the 19th century, Damascenes have known this\u00a0craft through a wide range of its wooden products\u00a0inlaid with silver, shell and bone to make home\u00a0and office furniture.<\/p>\n

The Syrian craftsman is distinguished with this\u00a0craft which has been attached historically to\u00a0Damascus, where in the past he made the most\u00a0beautiful antiques inlaying in seashells, gold,\u00a0silver and tin and is still producing splendor
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Wood inlaying craft is a very ancient and\u00a0distinguished Damascene handmade craft, where it\u00a0brought together the art and profession, a\u00a0specialist in wood inlaying, Arafat Utta Bashi\u00a0told SANA.<\/p>\n

He added that he has been working in this craft\u00a0since he was 9 years old, adding that he adores\u00a0this craft although he has studied Civil\u00a0Engineering.<\/p>\n

He pointed out that wood inlaying passes through\u00a0several stages and furniture, particularly sofas\u00a0which are usually inlaid in seashells, adding that\u00a0these sofas dubbed: al Istanbul (Turkish-\u00a0styled), Arabesque, English, Marie Antoinette and\u00a0other names.<\/p>\n

Furniture inlaying in seashells witnesses nowadays\u00a0a growing demand because the Syrian expatriates\u00a0yearn to their grandfathers’ homes that were\u00a0furnished with such furniture.<\/p>\n

Mosaic workshops spread since the 19th century all\u00a0over the old city of Damascus as the number of\u00a0people employed in this craft increased to over 28\u00a0thousand people in the mid-20th century who\u00a0supplied the market with large quantities of\u00a0products.<\/p>\n

Reem Abdul-Kareem\/Barry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Damascus, SANA- Damascenes are known and endowed\u00a0with a good reputation in wood inlaying craft, the\u00a0ancient Syrian craftsmanship in which the\u00a0grandfathers innovated a lot of methods to improve\u00a0and maintain it to be shifted to the grandchildren\u00a0throughout time. Since the 19th century, Damascenes have known this\u00a0craft through a wide range of its wooden products\u00a0inlaid with silver, shell …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":38341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,485,115,453,118],"tags":[5318,5317,5316],"class_list":["post-38338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-newscasts","category-economic","category-local","category-reports","category-reports-sweeteners-2","tag-damascenes","tag-wood","tag-wood-inlaying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}