Jordan

Jordan combines Bedouin desert culture with Nabataean stone heritage and embroidered dress.

Food & cooking Textile & dress Music & dance Crafts

Knowledge in this place

Bedouin coffee culture

Bedouin coffee culture

Roasting, pounding and serving of cardamom coffee at the heart of desert hospitality.

Tatreez embroidery

Tatreez embroidery

Cross-stitch embroidery on dresses carrying regional patterns and colours.

Textile & dress

Mansaf cuisine

Mansaf cuisine

National dish of lamb cooked in fermented dried-yoghurt jameed over rice and bread.

Bedouin samer chant

Bedouin samer chant

Communal poetry-and-dance evenings with clapping rows and improvised verse.

Traditional pottery

Traditional pottery

Hand-formed and wheel-thrown earthenware made from local clays.