mule & leathergoods

The formerly prosperous professions by the leather, contain the art of the tack room and the embroidery on leather, the manufacture of the traditional balgha ) shoe and other different utilitarian objects in tanning.

The tack room of splendor throned at the top of the professions by the leather. The saddle with its variety show of embroidery, established the leader of work of the craft of the leather.

Till the beginning of our century It was formed one of the most important corporations of the souks of the medina, the saddlers who animated in Tunis the workshops of the souk sarrajines.

The "balgha" knew its period splendor when it was the unique shoe, used inside and outside by men and women of all the social classes as well by the city-dwellers as the countrymen.
Besides the balgha, the artisans made the other sorts of slippers such as Besmaq, Rihya and Kontra.

Source : National portal of the Tunisian handycrafts