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Traditional craft skills and arts of Al-Naoor

Les savoir-faire artisanaux et artistiques traditionnels relatifs à l'Al-Naoor

Al-naoor is a wooden wheel that rotates on its axis. It is used on the streams of the Euphrates River in Iraq, where water levels are lower than the adjacent fields. In order to raise the river water to the fields, the communities devised the al-naoor wheel. The wheel is made of twenty-four columns of wooden sticks and twenty-four clay...