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Basket making containing sheets of palm trees constitutes an important aspect of the craft industry of the South; baskets, ranges and hats are the principal products. The wicker is used in the manufacture of basket.
The pieces of furniture in basket making (cane-bottoming) are a recent production which gains the favors of increasingly modern customers.

painted_glassPainting annealed glass

Tunisian painting under glass is characterized by its drawn topics hagiographic and heroic the Moslem epopee. The floral and animalist reasons also are very snuffed. Currently it evolves to the utility product (Mirror) in gilded managing staffs which emphasize the expansion of the colors of the very excavated drawings and the light of the mirrors.

Cage of Sidi Bou Saïdbird_cage

Very elegant and very decorative, the cage of Sidi Bou Said is inspired in its decoration by the arabesques by the window by wrought iron (Zlabiya) which decorates frontings of the residences of Médina.

 


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