Kiswa Ready to Change with New Kiswa for Kaaba
MAKKAH: Preparations are in progress to wrap the Kaaba with the new Kiswa, which has been made of immaculate silk and weaved with gold and silver strings, on the ninth of Dul Hijjah.
Mohammed receptacle Abdullah Bajawda, executive of the Kaaba Kiswa industrial facility at Umm Al-Joud in Makkah, as of late held a meeting in such manner with undersecretary of the processing plant, Fayez canister Abdulmalik, heads of divisions in the manufacturing plant and craftsmans.
The meeting examined operational and specialized parts of changing the Kiswa from the four sides of the Kaaba in the Grand Mosque in Makkah.
"The dressing time ought to be done after the morning supplications and ought to be sorted out as indicated by a foreordained arrangement," Bajawda told nearby media.
The Presidency of the Two Holy Mosques under the supervision of Sheik Abdulrahman Al-Sudais deals with the Kiswa, its general offices and the Kaaba consistently, under the mandates of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman.
Craftsmans working in the Kiswa production line are recorded in the national enlist of craftsmans and skilled workers by the National Handicraft Program (Bari), which goes for accomplishing an economical and adjusted improvement in the workmanship area.
As indicated by Bajawda, the Kiswa changing function has been occurring on Dul Hijjah 9, when the pioneers gather in Arafat at the pinnacle of Haj journey. The function begins after Fajr petition and proceeds until Asr supplication.
More than 240 individuals work in the industrial facility's distinctive offices. It has the biggest electronic fitting machine on the planet with a length of 16 meters. Talented specialists utilize a blend of the most recent innovation, antiquated weaving machines aesthetic calligraphy to create a work of outlandish magnificence. For the most part, the new fabric is prepared two months before Haj.
A Kiswa devours around 700 kg of silk and 120 kg of brilliant and silver strings. It comprises of 47 bits of fabric, and each piece is 14 meters in length and 101cm wide. The Kiswa is wrapped around the Kaaba and settled to the ground with copper rings.
Indeed, even today in Makkah the years old custom is being rehearsed with full eagerness. The heavenly Kaaba is secured with new kiswa (cover) each year on the tenth Dhul Hijjah, which harmonizes with Haj. Consistently the old Kiswa is evacuated, cut into little pieces and talented to specific people, going to remote Muslim dignitaries and associations. Some of them offer their offer as trinkets of Haj. Prior Umar container al-Khattab (radiyallahu anhu) would slice it into pieces and appropriate them among the pioneers who utilized them as asylum from the warmth of Makkah.
The present cost of making the kiswa adds up to SR 17 million. The cover is 658 sq. meters long and is made of 670 kgs of unadulterated silk. For weaving 15 kilos of gold strings are utilized. It comprises of 47 bits of material and each piece is 14 Meters. long and 101 cms expansive. The kiswa is wrapped around the Kaaba and settled to the ground with copper rings.
Generally the example of kiswa has not changed. The material is comprised of silk and a gold weaved band is sewn around three fourth the separation from the base. The part covering the entryway, which stands 2.13 meters over the ground on the north-east side divider, is secured independently with luxuriously weaved Quranic verses, leaving an opening for the dark stone.
The shade of Kiswa continued changing amid the rules of various Caliphs and rulers. In prior days the kiswa was changed on tenth of Muharamm yet gradually it was moved to tenth of Dhul-Hijjah. Amir Maawiya (radiyallahu anhu) begun to cover it on tenth Muharram (first month of Muslim logbook) and in addition on Idd ul-Fitr (Ramadan).
In long time past days diverse tribes of Makkah would cover the Kaaba by turns yearly. Tribal pioneers would likewise convey little window hangings to cover the dividers of Kaaba.
Once the excellent mother of Prophet Mohammed (sallallahu alaiyhi wassallam) had offered a white Kiswa. Prophet Muhammed(sallallahu alaiyhi wassallam)) utilized the Kiswa made of Yemeni fabric. Caliphs Umar(radiyallahu anhu) and Uthman (radiyallahu anhu) secured it with an Egyptian white material, Qubati. Haroon Al-Rasheed utilized a white Kiswa.
The material would originate from Baghdad, Egypt and Yemen relying upon whose impact was more prominent in Makkah. Emissary of Egypt Mohammed Ali Pasha in the wake of part from the Turkey Empire, made making of the Kiswa the state duty. The Kiswa was brought by yearly convoy from Cairo.
Nassir Abbasi (1160-1207) began utilizing a green Kiswa and later moved to dark, from that point forward the dark kiswa has turned into the custom. Prior the Kiswas were plain. Just in 1340 the weaving outskirt custom was presented by the Egyptian ruler Hassan.
Amid World War I Turkey joined Germany and there were questions that will it be conceivable to bring the Kiswa from Egypt. So Turkey composed an extremely amazing Kiswa from Istanbul and by Hejaz Railway it was sent to Madinah. Be that as it may, the Kiswa from Egypt achieved Makkah in time, so the Istanbul Kiswa was kept back in Madinah.
In 1923 when the relations of Sheriff of Makkah and Egypt were sharp, the Egyptians gotten back to their Kiswa which had achieved Jeddah at that point. That year the Istanbul Kiswa lying in Madinah was used. Ibn Saud utilized the Kiswa made in Iraq.
In 1926 a plant was set up at Makkah by Late King Abdul Aziz to make the Kiswa. At first all the specialists were brought from India. It took more than 100 skilled workers the entire year to weave the material on old wooden handlooms and to weave it in great calligraphy. In 1937 the processing plant was shut down due to non accessibility of present day hardware.
The manufacturing plant was re-opened after a long crevice in 1962. Making of the Kiswa is a fascinating procedure and done in various stages. The best silk is foreign from Italy and Germany. With the assistance of uncommon cleansers and unique olive oil cleansers the silk is washed to evacuate its defensive wax.
The silk is presented to high temperatures of 90c and washed a few times to get its common shading. The best consequences of coloring are accomplished on the common shading. Ten years prior, coloring was done physically and now it is being done through particular machines. Later weaving is finished. At the outset the belt of the Kaaba had 8 pieces and later it was multiplied. In 1971 two extra bits of YA HAYYU and YA QAYUUM were presented. The cover and internal layer are done in one division. Outlining g of Quranic verses is being mechanized. Automated outlining has gradually supplanted manual planning and expanded the speed of work.
Engraved with verses from the Holy Qurâan, the Kiswa is unpredictably woven with gold and silver strings.
The Kiswa is made in many stages. After the cover is planned by surely understood specialists, it is shaded. Multifaceted work incorporates the outline of improvements, the weaved engravings on the belt and the Kaaba entryway drape, and the enrichments on Jacquard material for the external and internal cover.
Next come the printing and coloring stages. The Kiswa is later woven and weaved. Manual weaving is finished by experienced skilled workers and mechanical weaving on present day looms.
The special weaving is accomplished in a few phases. To start with by sewing cotton string, on the engravings and beautifications imprinted on the fabric. At that point comes the weaving strings of yellow cotton.
The weaving is then secured with gold plated silver strings which distend two centimeters over the material.
The New Kiswa is made of around 670 kilograms of unadulterated white silk and 150 kg of gold and silver. It cost more than SR17 million and is viewed as a standout amongst the most stunning works of Islamic workmanship. It is produced at the processing plant of Kiswa at Ummal-Joud, a suburb of Makkah.More than 240 representatives, work in the industrial facility. Talented specialists utilize a blend of the most recent innovation, antiquated weaving machines creative calligraphy to deliver a work of colorful excellence. Typically the new material is to be prepared two months before Haj.
Before putting the new dress, the old Kiswa is sliced into pieces and displayed to pioneers of Muslim nations, negotiators and real organizations around the globe. One such piece was introduced to the United Nations.
Mohammed receptacle Abdullah Bajawda, executive of the Kaaba Kiswa industrial facility at Umm Al-Joud in Makkah, as of late held a meeting in such manner with undersecretary of the processing plant, Fayez canister Abdulmalik, heads of divisions in the manufacturing plant and craftsmans.
The meeting examined operational and specialized parts of changing the Kiswa from the four sides of the Kaaba in the Grand Mosque in Makkah.
"The dressing time ought to be done after the morning supplications and ought to be sorted out as indicated by a foreordained arrangement," Bajawda told nearby media.
The Presidency of the Two Holy Mosques under the supervision of Sheik Abdulrahman Al-Sudais deals with the Kiswa, its general offices and the Kaaba consistently, under the mandates of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman.
Craftsmans working in the Kiswa production line are recorded in the national enlist of craftsmans and skilled workers by the National Handicraft Program (Bari), which goes for accomplishing an economical and adjusted improvement in the workmanship area.
As indicated by Bajawda, the Kiswa changing function has been occurring on Dul Hijjah 9, when the pioneers gather in Arafat at the pinnacle of Haj journey. The function begins after Fajr petition and proceeds until Asr supplication.
More than 240 individuals work in the industrial facility's distinctive offices. It has the biggest electronic fitting machine on the planet with a length of 16 meters. Talented specialists utilize a blend of the most recent innovation, antiquated weaving machines aesthetic calligraphy to create a work of outlandish magnificence. For the most part, the new fabric is prepared two months before Haj.
A Kiswa devours around 700 kg of silk and 120 kg of brilliant and silver strings. It comprises of 47 bits of fabric, and each piece is 14 meters in length and 101cm wide. The Kiswa is wrapped around the Kaaba and settled to the ground with copper rings.
Indeed, even today in Makkah the years old custom is being rehearsed with full eagerness. The heavenly Kaaba is secured with new kiswa (cover) each year on the tenth Dhul Hijjah, which harmonizes with Haj. Consistently the old Kiswa is evacuated, cut into little pieces and talented to specific people, going to remote Muslim dignitaries and associations. Some of them offer their offer as trinkets of Haj. Prior Umar container al-Khattab (radiyallahu anhu) would slice it into pieces and appropriate them among the pioneers who utilized them as asylum from the warmth of Makkah.
The present cost of making the kiswa adds up to SR 17 million. The cover is 658 sq. meters long and is made of 670 kgs of unadulterated silk. For weaving 15 kilos of gold strings are utilized. It comprises of 47 bits of material and each piece is 14 Meters. long and 101 cms expansive. The kiswa is wrapped around the Kaaba and settled to the ground with copper rings.
Generally the example of kiswa has not changed. The material is comprised of silk and a gold weaved band is sewn around three fourth the separation from the base. The part covering the entryway, which stands 2.13 meters over the ground on the north-east side divider, is secured independently with luxuriously weaved Quranic verses, leaving an opening for the dark stone.
The shade of Kiswa continued changing amid the rules of various Caliphs and rulers. In prior days the kiswa was changed on tenth of Muharamm yet gradually it was moved to tenth of Dhul-Hijjah. Amir Maawiya (radiyallahu anhu) begun to cover it on tenth Muharram (first month of Muslim logbook) and in addition on Idd ul-Fitr (Ramadan).
In long time past days diverse tribes of Makkah would cover the Kaaba by turns yearly. Tribal pioneers would likewise convey little window hangings to cover the dividers of Kaaba.
Once the excellent mother of Prophet Mohammed (sallallahu alaiyhi wassallam) had offered a white Kiswa. Prophet Muhammed(sallallahu alaiyhi wassallam)) utilized the Kiswa made of Yemeni fabric. Caliphs Umar(radiyallahu anhu) and Uthman (radiyallahu anhu) secured it with an Egyptian white material, Qubati. Haroon Al-Rasheed utilized a white Kiswa.
The material would originate from Baghdad, Egypt and Yemen relying upon whose impact was more prominent in Makkah. Emissary of Egypt Mohammed Ali Pasha in the wake of part from the Turkey Empire, made making of the Kiswa the state duty. The Kiswa was brought by yearly convoy from Cairo.
Nassir Abbasi (1160-1207) began utilizing a green Kiswa and later moved to dark, from that point forward the dark kiswa has turned into the custom. Prior the Kiswas were plain. Just in 1340 the weaving outskirt custom was presented by the Egyptian ruler Hassan.
Amid World War I Turkey joined Germany and there were questions that will it be conceivable to bring the Kiswa from Egypt. So Turkey composed an extremely amazing Kiswa from Istanbul and by Hejaz Railway it was sent to Madinah. Be that as it may, the Kiswa from Egypt achieved Makkah in time, so the Istanbul Kiswa was kept back in Madinah.
In 1923 when the relations of Sheriff of Makkah and Egypt were sharp, the Egyptians gotten back to their Kiswa which had achieved Jeddah at that point. That year the Istanbul Kiswa lying in Madinah was used. Ibn Saud utilized the Kiswa made in Iraq.
In 1926 a plant was set up at Makkah by Late King Abdul Aziz to make the Kiswa. At first all the specialists were brought from India. It took more than 100 skilled workers the entire year to weave the material on old wooden handlooms and to weave it in great calligraphy. In 1937 the processing plant was shut down due to non accessibility of present day hardware.
The manufacturing plant was re-opened after a long crevice in 1962. Making of the Kiswa is a fascinating procedure and done in various stages. The best silk is foreign from Italy and Germany. With the assistance of uncommon cleansers and unique olive oil cleansers the silk is washed to evacuate its defensive wax.
The silk is presented to high temperatures of 90c and washed a few times to get its common shading. The best consequences of coloring are accomplished on the common shading. Ten years prior, coloring was done physically and now it is being done through particular machines. Later weaving is finished. At the outset the belt of the Kaaba had 8 pieces and later it was multiplied. In 1971 two extra bits of YA HAYYU and YA QAYUUM were presented. The cover and internal layer are done in one division. Outlining g of Quranic verses is being mechanized. Automated outlining has gradually supplanted manual planning and expanded the speed of work.
The Making of Present Day Kiswa
Silver and brilliant strings are utilized for weaving. Weaving strings are presently made locally in Saudi Arabia, by a similar goldsmith who made the entryway of Kaaba. Completed pieces under go strict quality control tests in the research facility before being sewed together.Engraved with verses from the Holy Qurâan, the Kiswa is unpredictably woven with gold and silver strings.
The Kiswa is made in many stages. After the cover is planned by surely understood specialists, it is shaded. Multifaceted work incorporates the outline of improvements, the weaved engravings on the belt and the Kaaba entryway drape, and the enrichments on Jacquard material for the external and internal cover.
Next come the printing and coloring stages. The Kiswa is later woven and weaved. Manual weaving is finished by experienced skilled workers and mechanical weaving on present day looms.
The special weaving is accomplished in a few phases. To start with by sewing cotton string, on the engravings and beautifications imprinted on the fabric. At that point comes the weaving strings of yellow cotton.
The weaving is then secured with gold plated silver strings which distend two centimeters over the material.
The New Kiswa is made of around 670 kilograms of unadulterated white silk and 150 kg of gold and silver. It cost more than SR17 million and is viewed as a standout amongst the most stunning works of Islamic workmanship. It is produced at the processing plant of Kiswa at Ummal-Joud, a suburb of Makkah.More than 240 representatives, work in the industrial facility. Talented specialists utilize a blend of the most recent innovation, antiquated weaving machines creative calligraphy to deliver a work of colorful excellence. Typically the new material is to be prepared two months before Haj.
Before putting the new dress, the old Kiswa is sliced into pieces and displayed to pioneers of Muslim nations, negotiators and real organizations around the globe. One such piece was introduced to the United Nations.
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