Learn to Weave, Design Your Own Carpet with FBMI at Dubai Mall this Ramadan 2015
- Written by Pitch Engine
The Fatima Bint Mohamed Initiative (FBMI) offer activities at Souk Atrium, Dubai Mall this Ramadan 2015. Every day from 10am to 1am, FBMI offer demonstrations of carpet weaving and wool spinning. Visitors have the chance to learn the art of knot tying first-hand by using this technique on a carpet loom. They can also design their own carpet and calligraphy with the advices of experts.
Free to all.
Every day from 10am to 1am.
Souk Atrium, Dubai Mall.
About FBMI
FBMI is Her Highness Sheikha Fatima Bint Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan humanitarian initiative.
FBMI, an Abu Dhabi-based program, in partnership with Tanweer Investments of Afghanistan, is dedicated to empowering Afghan women through the employment opportunities of carpet production, as well as providing healthcare and education to its workers.
The carpets produced through FBMI employs traditional crafting methods, operating strictly within Afghanistan. Wool from Afghan farmers, natural vegetables dyes and, of course, a local workforce (over 4,000 workers to date) are all pillars of the FBMI program.
FBMI enjoys fantastic collaborations with international and local designers such as Norma Kamali, Khalid Shaffar and pop artist Maria Iqbal.
FBMI has received many awards amongst which the Humanitarian Award at Arab Woman Awards UAE 2014 and was granted an honouring Insignia in the category of Leading Emirati Project (Humanitarian) by H.H. Sheikha Fatima Bint Mubarak (Chairwomen of the General Women`s Union and Family Development Foundation and President of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood , the Honorary President of the UAE Red Crescent Authority).
The organization currently has four showrooms: in Kabul, London, Dubai on Jumeirah Beach Rd and in Abu Dhabi Yas Mall open to professionals as well as local consumers.
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