Textile Polishers

Damascus

Date: Twelfth to sixteenth centuries

The daqqāqīn were the artisans who polished the fabrics after they had been woven. These artisans had a market not far from the dār al-biṭṭīkh. Information is drawn from the work of Ibn ʿAsakir (d. 1176), al-Nuʿaymi … read more