TE24 International Desk:
Riyadh – Tuesday marks the end of the Haswi Bisht celebrations in Al-Ahsa’s Souk Al-Arabiya. Bisht is a traditional men’s dress that is well-known in Arab countries, worn over a thob. It is placed under the feet without shoulders and sleeves.
The drawn out celebration highlighted various exercises that mirrored the authentic and social legacy of hand weaving in Al-Ahsa, especially in bisht creation.
During the celebration’s initiation last Wednesday, Eastern Province Gov. Ruler Saud receptacle Naif wore a light brown bisht and was joined by Al-Ahsa Gov. Sovereign Saud canister Talal receptacle Badr, and Minister of Municipal and Rural Affairs and Housing Majid Al-Hogail.
Many individuals in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf appreciate wearing bishts on unique events and occasions, and wear them with customary trimmings and fine hand sewing, weaved with different strings and fastens in gold or yellow, silver, white, and red.
Male grooms in Saudi Arabia quite often wear a bisht, and numerous colleges demand their understudies wearing one during graduation services.
Emad Al-Ghadeer, chief individual from the public coordinated operations council at the Federation of Saudi Chambers, said: “There is no question that Hasawi bisht is a brand with a long history, and it should be really focused on and appropriately acquainted with guarantee its coherence.”
Al-Ghadeer encouraged the foundation of preparing establishments in the business to help bisht efficiency, “as this masterpiece contributes essentially to the district’s monetary turn of events.”
He contrasted the Hasawi bisht with a Rolex watch regarding quality, directing out that numerous guests toward Saudi Arabia are anxious to buy them.
As per Ali Mohammed Al-Qattan, quite possibly of the greatest vendor in the business in Al-Ahsa, there has been an expansion in bisht deals after numerous months of the business being impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
While machine-made bishts started to overwhelm markets quite a long time back, supported by their low costs, hand tailored bisht keep on existing “basically among elites,” he said.
“For every particular piece of the bisht, there is a designer who is great at working with it and feels (it is) not difficult to sew it,” he added.
The seven-day celebration includes a display reporting the worth of bisht, live studios on the bisht business, and a festival of public handiworks, including bisht sewing.
Al-Ahsa is notable for the bisht, a verifiable art that has been gone down through numerous families for ages.
Khaled Al-Farida, chief general of the travel industry expert in Al-Ahsa, said that the bisht business was at first a ladies’ calling, as ladies were anxious to weave them for their children who went to the Kataib (Qur’an remembrance meetings), recognizing them from others.
Men wandered into the business as request expanded, and gradually the business started to extend.
The names of the bisht depend on the lines of adornment, the width and the shape, which can be three-sided, quadrilateral, hexagonal, or octagonal, he made sense of.
Al-Farida noticed that the bisht was once simply offered to the rich — shippers, and those with abundance and influence. Afterward, the bisht developed into an outfit and a public image of Saudi Arabia and its Gulf neighbors.
As indicated by him, dark is the most wanted variety, especially during relationships, and one justification behind this is that it takes on an unmistakable shape when trimmed with gold-hued buttons, as well as beige and brown.
