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Tent Makers of Cairo

Reprinted with permission from Aramco World, November/December 1986.

 Copyright © 1986 Aramco Services Co. 

Further use prohibited without permission.

The article was written and photographed 

And you thought making a queen size quilt was a lot of fabric.

The machine is only used to sew the tent together. 

All appliqué is  hand done, mostly by men.

 the scale

close up of a central medallion

This is enlarged detail of the above machine.  Note it doesn't even have a face plate.

Putting a tent up

This is only a very small excerpt from a very generous and wonderful article.

 Hopefully this will give you inspiration to learn more.

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