With its variety of shapes and embroideries, the saddle was once the masterpiece of leather crafts.
Besides balga (traditional footwear), leather craftsmen also manufactured all kinds of babouches such as besmaq, the rihya and kontra. Men babouches were generally of a natural color and those for women are colorfully decorated and embroidered with silk, cotton, gold and silver…

The art of footwear has lost none of its vitality, as reflected by the new collections of Tunisian artisans.

Leather goods and its string of handbags and luggage, bags, poufs, belts, wallets, and purses -is  trendy, with its modern forms, vibrant colors and its blend of materials.