Photograph of a Veteran Craftsman from Dar al-Kiswah
Arc.al 1.9
Egypt
print possibly made in the 1940s from an older negative
photographic print
9 x 13cm
The photograph is of Hajj Muhammad Hasan Amin Nada, a veteran craftsman at the Dar al-Kiswah, embroidering a section of the belt of the Ka‘bah (the hizam)known as a kardashiyyah. [for other employees of the Dar al-Kiswah, see ARC.pp 15]