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High in Lebanons rugged mountains, hatmaker Youssef Akiki is among the last artisans practising the thousand-year-old skill of making traditional warm woolen caps once widely worn against the icy winter chill. Akiki believes he may be the last commercial maker of the sheep wool labbadeh a name ..
Hrajel, Lebanon: High in Lebanon s rugged mountains, hatmaker Youssef Akiki is among the last artisans practising the thousand year old skill of makin.
High in Lebanon's rugged mountains, hatmaker Youssef Akiki is among the last artisans practicing the thousand-year-old skill of making traditional warm woolen caps once widely worn against the icy winter chill. Akiki believes he may be the last commercial maker of the sheep wool "labbadeh" a named derived from the Arabic for felt, or "labd" a waterproof and warm cap colored off-white, grey, brown or black. "The elders of the village make their own labbadehs", said Akiki, who also dresses in the traditional style of baggy trousers.