Swahili curving and furniture's

    It is common for a newly visitor to come across wooden curving doors and windows in narrow streets in old towns along the coastal of east Africa,as from far north of Kenya coastal centres like Lamu,Pate and Kiunga to the islands of Zanzibar,Kilwa and Comoro islands along the India ocean waters.
   These culture is still practises to date and in many designs like showcase,beds and other types of wooden materials as decoration with the Swahili cultural areas, in hinter land where the culture has spread and it is currently a booming market.
                                                                             

One of a wooden curving door from a major old narrow street of Stone town in Zanzibar main island of Uguja,during the ruins of sultanate these kind of curving's was mainly seen as a prestige to some high social class people with the elite Arabs settle and local Swahili elite people and such that the curving will have some Arabic script on it.

Some of the other old cultural furniture's are so common in most of hotels and also in homesteads are Swahili chairs and the famous Mwakisu Swahili bed type,it made up of wooden sticks and a woven ropes both bed and chair then one can buy some cutions separately or mattress for the bed,normal in the local culture people uses a woven mate on top of the bed and a improvise mattress made local.

These is one of a Swahili woven bed commonly used by many Swahili people a long the east Africa coast and in many hotels.visitors and tourist explore these area have a lot to see and explore apart from the warm tropical climate and wildlife safaris,there is a deep rooted curving and furniture's which can be found in local market areas ranging from kitchen wear to furniture's and decorations,once your visiting these places please take your time to explore these east Africa coastal cultural.