Next to the National Museum, Sadu House keeps alive Al Sadu — the bold geometric weaving of the desert — with exhibitions, workshops and a shop of handwoven pieces.
Al Sadu is the traditional weaving of the Bedouin: women spun sheep’s wool, goat hair and camel hair and wove them on ground looms into tent dividers, rugs, cushions and camel trappings, with bands of red, black, white and natural tones carrying symbols of desert life.
The house is the home of the Al Sadu Society, which documents patterns, trains new weavers and works with contemporary designers. In 2020 the traditional weaving of Al Sadu, nominated jointly by Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, was inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Exhibitions inside the traditional courtyard house explain the tools, motifs and meanings of Sadu, and the shop is one of the best places in Kuwait to buy authentic woven pieces.
Good to know
- Ask about weaving demonstrations and workshops — see the Al Sadu Society website.
