Images Dated 2005 September

Injera basket (Sifet), Ethiopian Highlands, Ethiopia

Injera basket (Sifet), Ethiopian Highlands, Ethiopia
Africa, Ethiopia, The Ethiopian Highlands, Colourful woven Injera basket, called a Sifet

© Gavin Hellier

Africa, African, Colourful, East Africa, Eh01011, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Ethiopian Highlands, Gavin Hellier, Handicraft, Injera Basket, Jai, Pattern, Sifet, Sub Saharan Africa, Travel, Travel Destinations, World Locations

A man working in the tanneries in Old Fez, Morocco

A man working in the tanneries in Old Fez, Morocco. In the white pits, animal hides are soaked for a week in lime and bird droppings to bleach the skin and remove the hair. The skins are then moved to the brown pits where they are coloured using natural dyes

© Julian Love/John Warburton-Lee Photography Ltd

30s, Animal Skin, Arts And Crafts, Bright, Color, Colorful, Colour, Colourful, Dye, Dyeing, Entrance, Fes, Fez, Gate, Gateway, Hides, Industry, Leather, Man, Medieval, Mediterranean, Moroccan, Morocco, Muslim, North Africa, Pits, Red, Skins, Tanneries, Thirties, Tradition, Traditional, Traditional Industry, Worker, Working

Afghanistan, Mazar-I-Sharif, Detail of tilework, Shrine of Hazrat Ali

Afghanistan, Mazar-I-Sharif, Detail of tilework, Shrine of Hazrat Ali
AFGHANISTAN, Mazar-I-Sharif, Detail of tilework, Shrine of Hazrat Ali (who was assissinated in 661)
This shrine was built here in 1136 on the orders of Seljuk Sultan Sanjar

© Jane Sweeney

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