British Museum

Yémen. Ciel Et Terre. Pascal Maréchaux (Auteur) Editeur : Hazan

“Algérie”, préface et textes de Jean Amrouche, photographies de Henriette Grindat. La Guilde du livre, Lausanne, 1956.

Both the Silversmith and the weaver were upset that their children did not want to take on the craft, this being the case, each of these traditions would die-out. Both could understand why, the lure of education and changing times, modernity unfortunately is a double-edged sword, and although they understood this, they shared with me their sadness that many traditions would cease to exist. We often discussed the cultural significance for each of the crafts, and they saw the importance of trying to maintain traditions and were afraid that items of cultural significance would eventually be made overseas, if not lost forever.

She is wearing a silver hair ornament (halqa). Oman, 1979-81. David Jones

68-year-old Touda Oulmimed of the Ait Haddidou tribe. Imilchil, Morocco, 1991. Scanned from the book Imazighen: The Vanishing Traditions of Berber Women; 1996; Margaret Courtney-Clarke

Tuareg; Algeria, 1975. Scanned from the book Le Désert des Kel Ahaggar; 1982; Henri Bancaud

Tuareg; Algeria, 1975. Scanned from the book Le Désert des Kel Ahaggar; 1982; Henri Bancaud

Greek shepherds, Greece, 1960. Harrison Forman

A veiled Albanian Muslim woman from Thessaloniki, Greece, 1913. Auguste Leon, Albert Kahn Museum

Dyeing cloth in the last indigo dye workshop in Bahla, Oman, 1958. Jenny Balfour-Paul

kurdistan, 1975 by werner finke

kurdistan, 1975 by werner finke

Brow of a boat. Musandam, Oman, 1993. Gigi Crocker Jones

kurdistan, 1975 by werner finke

Al Hudaydah; Zabid, Yemen, 1995. Sheila Rosemary Paine

Photographer: Lynsey Addario