Traditional crafts are considered the most important pillar of any
country's tangible legacy. In Egypt, some of special properties for
traditional crafts that are in each region have its own distinctive
traditional crafts that belong to centuries long ago. Through sequence
of periods, these crafts attracted people who are interested in Egyptian
legacy, from all over the world. Moreover, there were individual and
infrequent attempts resulted in opening markets for those valuable and
high quality products. We have seen how Chinese recently affected
cultural manufactures field and this expression means what is related
to traditional crafts in all over the world. In later titles, we will
elaborate in details the cooperation between China and Culture
Ministry of Egypt, regarding this point and its shortcomings.
Furthermore, we have to shed light on the role of state institutions in
protecting traditional crafts and how they promote them, in
comparison to the role of civil society institutions in regard to this
field. We are going to have a commentary on each following theme,
deducing results and recommended solutions.
The Egyptian traditional handicrafts are the result of the cumulative
experiences of the community which reflects the cultural heritage of
the individuals and their relationships with one another, with the
available resources and also with the surrounded environment. These
traditional handicrafts are varied according to many issues, but in
general the result is always artistic and fascinating.