Pimp my camel.

[rug]

[ret5hd]

1. wOW...THAT LOOKS SHARP.

My cat is NOT going to like you!

[Habibi]

2. Do you have a link to the original?

My belly dance friends would go nuts for this.

[pinboy3niner]

4. Here's one about a camel festival in India with background and more pics:

Designing for Camels: The Art of Dressing Up Your Desert Beasts
by jeannie on May 15, 2012

Rajasthan, the largest state in India, is mostly made of up desert, and the largest city in that desert, Bikaner, hosts a yearly Camel Festival every January which features the familiar desert beast. There is camel racing, camel parades, and even camel contests, and the best part of all this is the way the native Rajputs have decked out their camels with elaborate draping, buckles, saddles, and more.

The Rajputs are so serious about their camel decor that contests for camel design are held– this doesn’t mean just judging the mirrored trappings on the camels, but the actual patterns that have been carefully shaved, trimmed, dyed, and styled in the camel’s coat. I’ve sourced the photos below from two different Flickr accounts, and they each do a great job succinctly describing the festival and its camels. From Flickr user Osakabe Yasuo:

The job takes about 3 years to make an engraved tatoo for an individual camels. First 2 years, there is just growing the hair and starts trimming. Inhabitant of desert does not use the iron engraved for the camels. They just cut and dye the camel hair. I have never seen such a beautiful works in the world.

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http://www.jeanniejeannie.com/2012/05/designing-for-camels-the-art-of-dressing-up-your-desert-beasts/

[Habibi]

6. Thank you! Amazing stuff

[pinboy3niner]

32. A little more searching might turn up more info

The time and care taken to do this is fascinating.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

8. those are some well loved camels!

[kentauros]

25. Appropriately named!

I'll have to send that link to my belly dance friends, too

[Recursion]

3. That is f***ing amazing

There are a few camels in my neighborhood, and I think they could use threads like that.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Sheer genius.

[silvershadow]

12. Yes. Sheer.

[marble falls]

7. Best and funnest post in weeks! Thanks for posting it!

[littlemissmartypants]

9. Kicking. Thank you. nt

[littlemissmartypants]

10. Now THAT IS a camel I'd walk a mile for...indeed! nt

[pinboy3niner]

11. It's certainly nothing to spit at :) nt

[pinboy3niner]

13. The camel's obviously a Dramadary queen

[passiveporcupine]

14. There you are

I was afraid you were going to desert us.

[MADem]

15. What grand ZINGS!!!!! Ha! "Drama" dery.... desert!!!

[pinboy3niner]

16. You just dropped by to bust my hump, didn't you?

[MADem]

17. Ha ha ha!

You know I think you're a freaking genius, don't you?

I LOOK for your posts, they really add to this place! You are a DU TREASURE!!!!!

[pinboy3niner]

23. That could explain why my posts get buried

But thanks!

[MADem]

26. Avast matey!!!!!

[Hoppy]

18. He's tricked out but with only one hump. Who's gonna pay for a ride with that?

[pinboy3niner]

19. ...

[pinboy3niner]

21. You lonely nomads have a one-track mind!

[Fla Dem]

20. At first I thought the designs were carved into the camels hide, which I found to be

very disturbing. But, in in a down post it as explained that they are formed by shaving the camels hair. In that case, a beautiful work of art.

[pinboy3niner]

22. What day is it? Huh? Huh? Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, guess what day it is!

[pinboy3niner]

24. It's a tough life, especially when you're reduced to working with camels

[pinboy3niner]

27. Copycamel!

Pimp my caramel
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018664320

[kentauros]

28. Hey!

That's better than copy"cat"!

[Skittles]

29. you want I should kick camel-pimping ass, rug?

LEMME AT THEM!!!

[pinboy3niner]

30. First, how good can you spit?

[pinboy3niner]

31. Apparently no part of the camel is left untouched...

...because I hear there are even whole websites devoted to camel toes.