art work of Yemeni artist Abdulwahab Al-Sayrafi

<body link="#C0C0C0" vlink="#C0C0C0" alink="#FF0066" text="#C0C0C0" bgcolor="#000000"> <style>a:hover{background-color:#3366ff;text-decoration:underline;color:light blue};li{color:red};arabinfonet{behavior:url(#default#homepage)};</style> <table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="#000000"> <tr> <td width="22%" colspan="2" align="left" valign="top"> <font face=verdana size=1 color="#ffffcc"><b> <a target="_top" href="yemen.htm"><font color="#C0C0C0">English site</font></a></b></font><font face=verdana size=1><br> </font> <font face=verdana size=1 color="#ffffcc"> <b> <a target="_top" href="jemen.htm"> <font color="#C0C0C0">Deutsche Seite</font></a></b></font><font size="1"><br> </font> <b><font color="#c0c0c0" size="1" face="verdana"> <a target="_top" href="voyages.htm"><font color="#C0C0C0">Page Français</font></a></font></b><font size="1"><br> </font> <b><font face="verdana" size="1" color="#c0c0c0"> <a target="_top" href="viaggi.htm"><font color="#C0C0C0">Pagina Italiana</font></a></font></b><font size="1"><br> </font> <b><a target="_top" href="viaje.htm"><font face="verdana" size="1" color="#C0C0C0"> Página en Español</font></a></b></td> <td width="78%" align="left" valign="top" colspan="2"> <b> <font color="#FF0066" size="2" face="Verdana"> Abdulwahab Al-Sayrafi</font><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana"> </font></b> <font size="2" face="Verdana">was born in 1968 in the Dau'd Quarter, heart of the old city of Sanaa. For many generations his family has been the principal alabaster cutters in Yemen, making windows for dwellings in the capital and as far away as Rada'. By the 1960s, however, imports of cheap colored glass had killed off the alabaster industry, which is extremely labor intensive at both mining and cutting stages. Abdulwahab has now revived the craft of his ancestors, working on restoration projects and promoting the reintroduction of alabaster in new building. At the same time, his lighting range which has been called "sculpture in light" -- reinterprets an ancient and peculiarly Yemeni tradition for a wider, contemporary world.</font></td> </tr> </table> <br> <table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="#000000"> <tr> <td width="33%" align="center" valign="top"> <a target="_top" href="art1.htm"> <img border="1" src="Assets/art1a.jpg" alt="art1a.jpg (21840 bytes)" hspace="1" vspace="1" width="182" height="120"></a><br> <b><font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#FF0066">Alabaster light</font></b></td> <td width="33%" align="center" valign="top"> <a target="_top" href="art10.htm"> <img border="1" src="Assets/art10a.jpg" alt="art10a.jpg (17880 bytes)" hspace="1" vspace="1" width="120" height="149"></a><br> <b><font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#FF0066">Alabaster lamp</font></b></td> <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"> <a target="_top" href="art11.htm"> <img border="1" src="Assets/art11a.jpg" alt="art11a.jpg (21840 bytes)" hspace="1" vspace="1" width="182" height="120"></a><br> <b><font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#FF0066">Alabaster candle</font></b></td> <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"> <a target="_top" href="art2.htm"> <img border="1" src="Assets/art2a.jpg" alt="art2a.jpg (21960 bytes)" hspace="1" vspace="1" width="183" height="120"></a><br> <b><font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#FF0066">Alabaster lamp</font></b></td> </tr> </table> </body>