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Pimp my camel. (Original Post)
rug
Sep 2014
OP
At first I thought the designs were carved into the camels hide, which I found to be
Fla Dem
Sep 2014
#20
What day is it? Huh? Huh? Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, guess what day it is!
pinboy3niner
Sep 2014
#22
ret5hd
(20,509 posts)1. wOW...THAT LOOKS SHARP.
My cat is NOT going to like you!
Habibi
(3,598 posts)2. Do you have a link to the original?
My belly dance friends would go nuts for this.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)4. Here's one about a camel festival in India with background and more pics:
Designing for Camels: The Art of Dressing Up Your Desert Beasts
by jeannie on May 15, 2012
Rajasthan, the largest state in India, is mostly made of up desert, and the largest city in that desert, Bikaner, hosts a yearly Camel Festival every January which features the familiar desert beast. There is camel racing, camel parades, and even camel contests, and the best part of all this is the way the native Rajputs have decked out their camels with elaborate draping, buckles, saddles, and more.
The Rajputs are so serious about their camel decor that contests for camel design are held this doesnt mean just judging the mirrored trappings on the camels, but the actual patterns that have been carefully shaved, trimmed, dyed, and styled in the camels coat. Ive sourced the photos below from two different Flickr accounts, and they each do a great job succinctly describing the festival and its camels. From Flickr user Osakabe Yasuo:
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http://www.jeanniejeannie.com/2012/05/designing-for-camels-the-art-of-dressing-up-your-desert-beasts/
by jeannie on May 15, 2012
Rajasthan, the largest state in India, is mostly made of up desert, and the largest city in that desert, Bikaner, hosts a yearly Camel Festival every January which features the familiar desert beast. There is camel racing, camel parades, and even camel contests, and the best part of all this is the way the native Rajputs have decked out their camels with elaborate draping, buckles, saddles, and more.
The Rajputs are so serious about their camel decor that contests for camel design are held this doesnt mean just judging the mirrored trappings on the camels, but the actual patterns that have been carefully shaved, trimmed, dyed, and styled in the camels coat. Ive sourced the photos below from two different Flickr accounts, and they each do a great job succinctly describing the festival and its camels. From Flickr user Osakabe Yasuo:
The job takes about 3 years to make an engraved tatoo for an individual camels. First 2 years, there is just growing the hair and starts trimming. Inhabitant of desert does not use the iron engraved for the camels. They just cut and dye the camel hair. I have never seen such a beautiful works in the world.
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http://www.jeanniejeannie.com/2012/05/designing-for-camels-the-art-of-dressing-up-your-desert-beasts/
Habibi
(3,598 posts)6. Thank you! Amazing stuff
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)32. A little more searching might turn up more info
The time and care taken to do this is fascinating.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)8. those are some well loved camels!
kentauros
(29,414 posts)25. Appropriately named!
I'll have to send that link to my belly dance friends, too
Recursion
(56,582 posts)3. That is f***ing amazing
There are a few camels in my neighborhood, and I think they could use threads like that.
Baitball Blogger
(46,753 posts)5. Sheer genius.
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)12. Yes. Sheer.
marble falls
(57,145 posts)7. Best and funnest post in weeks! Thanks for posting it!
littlemissmartypants
(22,722 posts)9. Kicking. Thank you. nt
littlemissmartypants
(22,722 posts)10. Now THAT IS a camel I'd walk a mile for...indeed! nt
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)11. It's certainly nothing to spit at :) nt
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)13. The camel's obviously a Dramadary queen
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)14. There you are
I was afraid you were going to desert us.
MADem
(135,425 posts)15. What grand ZINGS!!!!! Ha! "Drama" dery.... desert!!!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)16. You just dropped by to bust my hump, didn't you?
MADem
(135,425 posts)17. Ha ha ha!
You know I think you're a freaking genius, don't you?
I LOOK for your posts, they really add to this place! You are a DU TREASURE!!!!!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)23. That could explain why my posts get buried
But thanks!
MADem
(135,425 posts)26. Avast matey!!!!!
Hoppy
(3,595 posts)18. He's tricked out but with only one hump. Who's gonna pay for a ride with that?
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)21. You lonely nomads have a one-track mind!
Fla Dem
(23,723 posts)20. At first I thought the designs were carved into the camels hide, which I found to be
very disturbing. But, in in a down post it as explained that they are formed by shaving the camels hair. In that case, a beautiful work of art.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)22. What day is it? Huh? Huh? Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, guess what day it is!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)24. It's a tough life, especially when you're reduced to working with camels
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)27. Copycamel!
Pimp my caramel
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018664320
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018664320
kentauros
(29,414 posts)28. Hey!
That's better than copy"cat"!
Skittles
(153,174 posts)29. you want I should kick camel-pimping ass, rug?
LEMME AT THEM!!!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)30. First, how good can you spit?
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)31. Apparently no part of the camel is left untouched...
...because I hear there are even whole websites devoted to camel toes.