Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Tunis, Kairouan Carthage
But if it is delightful to find oneself surrounded by things fashioned on old tradition, and free from the dull uniform imprint of the machine, it is still more interesting to see the craftsmen at their work. To watch the dyers as they plunge their wool and silk into huge terra-cotta vessels of antique design, their bare limbs deeply stained by the colours employed; to note with what incredible rapidity the silk-weaver evolves, in many harmonious colours, the intricate pattern of his design; to observe how tightly the carpet-maker compresses his little tufts of wool, and thereby learn how the Eastern carpet lasts for centuries where its European counterpart only lasts for years to marvel at the patience of the metal-worker as he laboriously Chisels, on a copper bowl, the lines and spaces which will afterwards be filled with rarer metals by the damascener's art.
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