Madina: Tailors in Saudi Arabia Kaaba Kiswa factory are busy embroidering 120 kg of gold strings on a 14-metre silk cloth called kiswa. It is the cloth which covers the Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
Mohammed bin Abdullah Bajawda, director of the Kaaba Kiswa factory told Arab News, “The kiswa is made of pure silk that is dyed black, and it takes about 700kg of pure silk to weave the kiswa.”
The giant silk cloth is embroidered with 120 kg of gold and 25 kg of silver threads.
Though the cost of new kiswa is not known, last year it was worth SR 17million (AED 17 million).
Different verses and inscriptions from Holy Quran are woven into the fabric.
It is draped annually over the Kaaba at dawn on the ninth of Dhu Hijjah.
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