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Craft Camel

The camel is the main conveyance tool on the ancient Silk Road. It is also one of the special animals in the big desert, it bears the heat and strict cold, bears the hunger and the thirst. People often use it to take things in the desert; it is called "the boat of the desert" in the Gobi desert. Its firm and unyielding meekly tolerate insult negative bear suffering the spirit and simple and the images of honest, large and strong heavily deeply get the people fancy, once was taken as the mascot of the Chinese art stanza in Dunhuang, the handicrafts of the folks take cotton as birth, binds the specially made flannel to make into outside of camels that appear in simple and different shapes. It is a memorable product with special features of the tour in Dunhuang.

Source: dunhuang-hotels.com

 
 

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