Tuesday, November 30, 2021

The Bookmaker: An ancient craft in Ethiopia


Here, Archbishop Kalehiwot Habtewold still practices the ancient craft of parchment bookmaking.

To be able to do that, he sets his young disciples an unusual task: to find enough high-quality goat skins for the parchment needed to hand-craft these religious books.

The exquisitely illustrated religious books take years, even decades, to produce.

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