"From her home in Muscat, capital of Oman, Safiya Ahmad Al Lawati is using peach-colored thread to embroider a cap known in Omani Arabic as a kummah. Pushing her needle through the thick white calico, she works the thread around one of the cap’s dozens of small eyelets that aide ventilation in a hot climate. ‘I started early this morning,’ she explains. ‘It is a long and complicated process, and it can take up to a month or more depending on how elaborate the decoration is.’ ...”
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