Description
Rosewood Mortar and Pestle
This Rosewood Mortar and Pestle is a multi purpose piece. It may be used to elegantly mash and grind different types of food and spices in your kitchen; or as a rustic decorative piece in your space to create contrast and add a natural touch.
Each piece of the Makra Rosewood collection, namely the Rosewood Mortar and Pestle, is carefully designed to optimally serve its function; all while being an aesthetically pleasing statement piece in your home.
Apart from the design thereof, the Rosewood Mortar and Pestle is made of 100% natural rosewood of the finest quality in Egypt.
Each Rosewood Mortar and Pestle is handmade by one of the most skillful wood craftsmen in Egypt.
This combo of fine design, quality material and mastery of the wood working craft comes together at Makra to ultimately provide you with unique experience with rosewood pieces that serve as a quality statement in your home. An experience that is quite difficult to match elsewhere.
Check out the whole Makra Rosewood Collectionhere.
Maintenance
Organic materials, namely natural rosewood in our case, is an organic material that needs to be maintained overtime to always keep its shape, texture, and overall look and feel.
Ensure to periodically apply olive oil on the surface of your Makra Rosewood pieces, to keep its pores protected; to stay as good as new, stand the test of time and age beautifully.
For extra protection of the rosewood, polish it with beeswax every now and then.
The story of woodworking in Upper Egypt
The Makra Rosewood Collect is all handmade in Hagaza, a 400 years old village built around Marry Boktor Monastery on the ancient road of African pilgrims.
A 400 year old small village in Upper Egypt, which was built around Mary Boktor Monastery in the North of Luxor, which has become a hub of fine wooden craft production using rosewood, basic tools, bare hands and great patience.
Almost every working hand in the village of Hagaza is put into wood art production.
Hagaza is named after the Hejaz region in which Mecca is situated, as historically pilgrims traveling from Morocco to Mecca often stayed there on their long route to Hajj.
Along the way, some travelers fell in love with the village and stayed to join the original residents.
Since 1986 the village became a hub where young adults enter the local training center to sharpen their saws in high-end detailed wooden craft creation.
Today, Hagaza is the center of skillful wood working across the country (and arguably the whole region).
To learn more about wood working in Egypt since Ancient times clickhere.
