Ekşi Duyuru

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CHECHIAS
Chechias are the small, red felt hats sported
by older Tunisian men. The Grande Souq
de Chechias in Tunis ( p76 ) is the obvious
place to look, and you’ll doubtless also get
an interesting demonstration of how they
were made – they start off life as a loosely
knitted, saggy white bag. Quality varies, but
an average price is around TD6.

COPPER & BRASS
You’ll see people engraving beaten cop-
per and brass items in the medina shops.
Beaten plates make good souvenirs and
can be anything from saucer to coffee-table
size, though you might find the latter rather
weighs down your luggage.

ESPARTO GOODS & BASKETWARE
Rectangular, woven esparto baskets are
practical and cheap. Some are pure tack,
with pictures of camels and desert scenes,
but there are plenty of other simpler, less
cheesy designs. Most esparto items come
from Gabès and Jerba in the south. See the
Esparto Grass boxed text ( p180 ) for more
details.
You can also buy the attractive large bas-
kets that local people use for going to the
market – a large one costs around TD4.
Straw hats – as seen on Tunisian farm
workers everywhere – and fans are other
popular, practical pieces to snap up.

JEWELLERY
Arabic jewellery (particularly from gold)
is often extremely ornate and glitzy, but
there is also plenty more tourist-friendly
silver folk jewellery on sale here. A tradi-
tional Arabic motif is the Hand of Fatima
(daughter of the Prophet) or khomsa, used
in everything from small earrings to large
neck pendants, and usually made of silver.
In pre-Islamic times this same design repre-
sented Baal, the protector of the Carthagin-
ians. It’s thought to ward off the evil eye (of
envy), an enduring superstition.
Other traditional pieces of jewellery in-
clude the hedeyed, which are wide engraved
or filigree bracelets made of gold or silver,
and kholkal, which are similar but worn
around the ankle. In Carthaginian times khol-
kal were commonly worn to signify chastity;
today they’re still a symbol of fidelity and
are often part of a bride’s dowry. You’ll also
see khlal brooches. Made from silver, and
usually a triangular or crescent shape with a
pin, these are used to fasten clothes.
The quality of pure silver and gold jewel-
lery can be established by the official stamps
used to grade all work, and the quality of
unstamped items is immediately suspect.
The stamps in use are: the horse’s head
(the Carthaginian symbol for money and
used to mark all 18-carat gold jewellery);
the scorpion (all nine-carat gold jewellery);
grape clusters (silver graded at 900 mills per
gram); and the Negro head (poorer-quality
silver graded at 800 mills per gram).

LEATHER
There’s a huge variety of leather goods on
sale, but check the quality, as often stitching
can be on the shoddy side.
Kairouan is the country’s leading pro-
ducer of leather goods, supplying the na-
tion’s souvenir shops with belts, wallets,
purses and handbags embossed with camels
and palm trees.
Other articles for sale include traditional
pieces such as camel and donkey saddles,
water skins and cartridge pouches.
In Douz, and elsewhere in the south,
you can slip on comfortable camel-leather
sandals.

OILS & PERFUME
Cap Bon is famous for the production of es-
sential oils, especially orange blossom and
geranium . Most of the output goes to the
international perfume market, but some is
kept and used to make the scented oils that
are sold in tourist shops everywhere. Prices
start at TD1.5 for 5mL.

POTTERY & CERAMICS
Ceramics is big business in Tunisia, and
the main centres of production are Na-
beul ( p109 ) in Cap Bon, and the town of
Guellala ( p278 ) on Jerba. Styles range from
simple terracotta to bright Andalusian-style
vases and tiling.
The Berber villages around the small
northern town of Sejnane ( p134 ) are famous
for a primitive style of pottery, producing
unusual moulded bowls and naive figures
decorated in ochre and black. It’s found in
the Tunis medina at Hanout Arab (see p85 ),
and stalls around Sidi Mahres ( p75 ).

RUGS & CARPETS
There are some really beautiful rugs and car-
pets for sale, though they are not especially
cheap. The main carpet-selling centres are
Tunis, Kairouan, Tozeur and Jerba.
Look for traditional alloucha (thick-pile
Berber rugs) in Ain Draham, where they
are produced by a small women’s coop-
erative called Les Tapis de Kroumirie (see
the boxed text, p141) . They are also sold in
Tunis at Mains des Femmes ( p85 ).
All types are sold at the government-run
Socopa emporiums (see Where to Shop,
below ) found in the major tourist centres.
They have been inspected by the Organisa-
tion National de l’Artisanat (ONAT) and
classified according to type and number of
knots. They come with an affixed label giv-
ing this information.

SAND ROSES
Sand roses are the speciality of southern
Tunisia, although they’re sold all over the
country. They are formed of gypsum, which
has dissolved from the sand and then crys-
tallised into spectacular patterns that re-
semble flower petals.
They range from about 5cm in diameter
up to the size of a large watermelon. They
do make good cheap souvenirs, but carting
around a great chunk isn’t much fun.

SHEESHAS
The ubiquitous water pipes are everywhere
in souqs and tourist shops, just ready to
clutter up a corner of your sitting room.
They range in price from around TD4 for
a small, cheap one up to TD70 for a good-
quality, full-size version.

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