by My 5-year-old wanted to learn to sew. We made these fun Bedouin weaving inspired bookmarks. The idea was to imitate the Saudi Arabian Sadu cloth more or less but the experience … priceless! Sadu cloth is the traditional craft of Saudi Arabia. It is brightly colored thick woven cloth with simple but bold patterns. The […]
Flower Festival: Spring in Saudi Arabia
by In March this year, Yanbu, a port city in Western Saudi Arabia, set a Guinness World Record by creating the largest carpet of flowers in the world. We live just 3.5 hours away from Yanbu so I took my children to see the flower festival this weekend. It was unlike anything that we had […]