Tunisian Door

This is a door on a building in Tunisia. Usually in Tunisia the only decoration on buildings are the doors and windows, which adds to the beauty of the doors and windows because they are so noticeable and they stand out. This particular door is one of the most interesting and beautiful I saw because it has so much decoration. All of the decorative parterning is made using bolts. Each door usually has three door knockers because earlier women were not allowed to answer the door to a man when they were home alone and when they did answer to a man they must have had their headdress on. So each knocker makes a different sound so that the housewife knew if it was a man, woman or child at the door.