Beit Al Sadu (Sadu House) - From Desert to Town

We drove to Beit Al Sadu (Sadu House) this morning.  The website describes Al Sadu as

"From Desert to Town

Al Sadu Society is dedicated to preserving, documenting and promoting the rich and diverse textile heritage of the Kuwaiti Bedouin, from the nomadic weaving of the desert through to the urban weaving of the town. ...

Begun in 1978, as a private initiative, by a group of concerned Kuwaitis who wished to preserve a fast disappearing, yet intrinsic, cultural identity, the Al Sadu Project was founded.

In 1991, soon after the liberation of Kuwait, the Sadu Project was transformed into Al Sadu Weaving Co-operative Society. ...
There are two main setting for weaving in Kuwait: the desert, the traditional home of the nomadic Bedouin, where weaving was carried out by woman, and the settled, Urban existence of the town, where a very different type of weaving was undertaken by men.
The history of wool weaving in the Arabian desert goes back thousands of years.
“Al-Sadu” is the term used by the Bedouin to refer to the traditional weaving process-the woven items such as the tent and its colorful dividers, storage bags and animal trappings; and the traditional horizontal ground loom.
In the urban setting of the town, men took on the weaving of cloth for the bisht (a man’s cloak).
Take a walk through time and witness the story of weaving from desert to town, from fleece spinning and dying, through to the weaving of the finished products.
In the second hall, see the work behind the urban weaving of the bisht and delicate metal work and embroidery used to embellish a man’s clothing."

One of the entrances of the house

Main Hall

(Photography is not allowed inside the house.

I copied this photo and the one below from the internet.)

Sample of the weaving product