The great craft tradition in Lebanon

Lebanon has a long tradition of craftsmanship in various sectors: blown glass, refined ceramics, magnificent jewels, fabrics delicately embroidered with gold and silver threads.

Lebanon is certainly famous for its legendary cedar wood used since ancient times both in shipbuilding and in the construction of houses and furniture. Cedar wood, finely worked with carvings, it was well known and appreciated throughout the Mediterranean.

Shipbuilding was certainly one of Lebanon’s largest craft activities. The over-exploitation of the majestic cedars led the artisans to use different essences such as rosewood, olive, mahogany and beech.

Lebanese ceramics is also very well known and appreciated, thanks to the clay considered to be of the highest quality, used for the production of crockery and for the traditional water jug.

Among the craft activities that have made Lebanon known, it is certainly worth mentioning the art of fabrics, especially silk and the particular dye known as the Tyrian purple, extracted from a mollusk.