Municipalité de Tunis - السياحة

Craft industry and trades of art

Leather and working

In Tunisia, the leather trades are multiple: the art of saddlery, the bordery on leather, the manufacture of the traditional shoe (balgha), the saddle with its varieties of bordery constituted the masterpiece of the craft industry of leather.

In Tunisia, the leather trades are multiple: the art of saddlery, the bordery on leather, the manufacture of the traditional shoe (balgha), the saddle with its varieties of bordery constituted the masterpiece of the craft industry of leather.

In addition to the balga the craftsmen manufactured other kinds of Turkish slippers such as the besmaq, the rihya and will kontra it.

The Turkish slippers of men are generally of the natural color of leather, those of the women are embroidered with the money and gold, cotton, silk son…
Today, the craftsmen devote themselves more and more to the manufacture of products of leather working: satchels, portfolios of schoolboys, leather basket, belts, doors sheets, trimmings of offices, boxes…