weaving - carpets

The wool and textile vocation of Tunisia is attested since the oldest antiquity. On linen base or wool, the Carthaginian weavings were considered all over the world a classic art. Tthe big celebrity weavings of antique Tunisia is made by the purple veils of Carthage which is unique.

The Carthaginian had a secret based on a shell: the murex. The Carthaginian city Meninx in DJERBA as well as kerkouane was prosperous by its paints by the murex.

During the Moslem period in the IXth century, the aghlabides of Kairouan wich sent annually of luxurious pieces weaved to the caliph of bagad.