Kalash maker shows secrets of the trade to MEXTRA

(22 Jul 2018) LEADIN:
Traditional Kurdish shoes are still made by expert tradesmen in Sulaymaniyah.
Kalash are exlusively handmade by people who have learnt the skills from their fathers and grandfathers.
STORYLINE:
The shoes of Sulaymaniyah are famous.
Known as kalash, this traditional Kurdish footwear is made in the Hawraman area of the governorate, and sold around all around the Kurdish areas of Iraq.
The skills are kept in the family, passed down from generation to generation.
Kaywan Hawrami makes them in his little workshop. He's happy to show the secrets of the kalash to the world.
He starts by cutting up the fabric.
"The making of kalash cannot be described by speech alone," he says.
Hawrani flattens and presses the textiles, banging into shape the sole of the shoe.
Despite the various modern imported shoes, there is still a demand kalash because of their lightness and comfort, and many people can be seen wearing them. The shoes are produced in small work shops, not in mass-producing factories - each and every pair is strictly hand-made.
Harwani winds white string between his toes and fingers.
"This is the raw string that will be used for making the shoe, according to the type of making," he says.
"We need this to build the edge of the shoe body, it has to be six layers and each kalash needs several of this."
A pair of well-made kalash can cost up to 100,000 Iraqi dinars or about 80 US dollars. But a lot of work goes into producing them.
"It needs a very long time, it might take 8 to 10 days just to finish the weave of the body," explains Harwani.
One curiosity of the kalash is that there is no left and right - they can be worn on either feet.
The mountainous geography of northern Iraq also make the kalash very practical and useful for the shepherds, peshmerga fighters - and also for the smugglers who conduct much cross-border trade in the triangle of Iraq, Iran and Turkey.
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