Embroidery is a common practice for household textiles by women artisans in Afghanistan. Among the various forms of embroidery, khamak is one of the most distinguished and intricate ones. Khamak is a ...

Abu Dhabi, 6 April 2010 (WAM) - Foreign Minister H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan today opened the region's first comprehensive exhibition of Islamic embroidery, which includes more than 200 ...

Dating back to the early Islamic period, these designs were developed using a set of mathematical principles. Islamic art was characterized by utilizing geometric patterns in a distinct manner owing ...

The discovery of Arabic characters showing reverence to Allah embroidered in Viking funerary clothing has turned on its head hundreds of years of thinking about Scandinavians in history, and raises ...