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HomesGenubi - Deep desertIn the deep desert most of the people are transitory, as they are herders and follow their animals. They will travel from oasis to oasis. The most common type of home is a yurt or ger, a square tent made of hide walls and felt roof. (Yes I know yurts are suppose to be round, but we have no good round graphics so we have to compromise.) There will occasionally be found one of the more brightly colored Bedouin tents, but they are typically only used for larger and more established encampments. However the Bedouin tents are not as warm as the ger and the nights in the Genubi can get very cold.
Shamali - Northern Desert
Other types of buildings found in the Shamali are the open side pavilions made of a loosely woven fabric designed to create shade more then protection. These pavilions are often large and used for all types of gatherings like Hafla's and bazaars. Also some older and more established buildings will be made of the light sandstone which bears up well under the abuse of the desert sands. Description of Bedouin TentsBayt char – ‘house of hair’ - the traditional green and red or black Zuberi tents are traditionally woven from hair. Nowadays the woven strips can be bought, but many women still weave their own. When it rains the weave contracts and doesn’t let the water in. In the heat of the summer the outside of the tent feels very hot to the touch while the inside remains blissfully cool. At night when it is cold outside with a small fire inside the reverse is true, and the tent stays warm and cozy. The unexpected visitor will be invited into the men’s section, although subject to close scrutiny through any holes in the curtain dividing it from the women’s section! As you sit on cushions and rugs on soft sand, watching smoke from the cooking fire curl upward, you smell the aroma of freshly ground and brewed Zuberi coffee, called Gahwa. As you wander through the rooms of the spacious, low-roofed dwelling, you are caught by light drifting through the weave of the cloth, throwing its pattern on you and the undulating cool sand underfoot. You are told that your hostess made the tent and the slaves the rugs, cushions and saddlebags which are in use throughout the tent. She shows you her loom. Yarns over twenty-five feet long are stretched on heavy beams which are staked into the sand. It looks deceptively simple until she starts to weave. She sits on the ground, pushing and pulling, beating and plucking, to create the thick dense cloth that will withstand the severe sand, wind and wear of nomadic life. She shows you how she spins the strong, heavily twisted yarn on a simple hand spindle. She sits with a distaff full of twisted bunches of hair tucked under her left arm. She holds the spindle in her right hand and turns it quickly in her open palm, guiding the stream of hair from the distaff with her left hand. She shows you the patterns she has woven into the interior tent wall, which faces the part of the tent where male guests are entertained.
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The most common type of home in the Shamali are the brightly colored Bedouin
tents. They are harder to move then the Gers and not as warm but they suit
the slight more sedentary style of the Shamali Shaula. The Shaula of the
Shamali are more likely to camp around one oasis for months at a time, some for
longer, especially along known caravan routes.