A short film that combines Bahraini poetic traditions, the still-surviving craft of weaving in Bani Jamra and British labour history was premiered as part of a UK festival celebrating textiles.
The Legend of the Looms, the poem-turned-movie written by Bahraini author Ali Al Jamri, is an otherworldly debate between the ghosts of two weavers, one from Bahrain and one from the UK .
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