First stage
Knitting of the KABOUS ” KABOUS ” Bonnet 5 needles for knitting. Worsted UNBLEACHED
First stage
Knitting of the KABOUS ” KABOUS ” Bonnet 5 needles for knitting. Worsted UNBLEACHED
Second stage
Eloukda and the nichen ( Knitting of the nichen )
Third Stage
The quality of the water of the bath, its temperature, the concentration of the soap will be of a significant contribution on the quality of pressing and the felting of wool.
Fourth Stage
The foot comes then from the man because it is indeed the fouleer to the feet the bonnets softened to soften wool and to felt it suffisamant. Once this operation finished, it will not remain practically any more trace of the knitting of the meshs .
Fiveth stage
Comes then the always renewed thistle. This plant imported by the Andalusians and thriving in El Alia, plays an essential role in the manufacture of the chechia: it gives him its gloss and its velvety.
Sixth Stage
The tkoulib or moulding, gives its final form to the still wet chechia of the bath of dyeing. The small white bonnet became carmine and it misses only its nipple passementerie .
Seventh stage
A last setting in beauty and the last small blow… of thistle. The famous chaouachis never agreed to replace the thistle by the iron brush. The finally completed chechia is ready to leave for a drawing which sings
The craft industry of the chechia made live in its golden age of the thousands of families. The small Tunisian bonnet was the subject of profitable trade, one claimed it in Africa, but in all East and as far as Asia. It is always also present in the souks
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