Creative Professions

The furniture industry in Egypt is mainly concentrated in Damietta in Lower Egypt, as it produces approximately two-thirds of the production of wooden furniture in Egypt of high quality and taste that keeps pace with the latest designs, and the furniture industry in Damietta Governorate depends on wood industries through factories for the production of wood and plywood, factories for the production of veneer wood, and factories for the production of furniture accessories, handles, locks, furniture paints, and other various pieces of furniture.

Due to the quality of the Damietta furniture product and its compatibility with the global development of this industry, Damietta furniture has found a place on the export map for years to compete with and surpass global production. There are permanent furniture manufacturing exhibitions in Damietta through which all products manufactured within the governorate are displayed, in addition to a permanent exhibition at the Cairo Exhibition Grounds and holding exhibitions in other governorates from time to time in cooperation with the Small, Medium and Micro Enterprise Development Agency And the Damietta Chamber of Commerce.

In the belief of the political leadership in the importance of this activity, Damietta Furniture City was established.

The dairy industry is a first-class craft industry, as it relied on purely Damietta expertise, represented by the skills of some experienced men and women in the field of manufacturing Damietta white cheese, butter, local cheese, cream, yogurt, and Romano cheese. These colors were among the dairy industries at the beginning of the twentieth century. This industry was one of the home industries spread in an individual form inside homes, some of which were taken from one or two rooms designated for preparing Some types of cheese and other dairy products. This step is followed by building and allocating factories in their miniature form to produce different types of dairy, which prepares Damietta and nominates it to lead this industry.

Basics of manufacturing dairy products: milk – rennet – salt. 

Dairy products: Damietta cheese (white) - cottage cheese - Romano cheese - cream - butter - local ghee – yogurt

The craft of fishing is considered one of the oldest crafts practiced by the people of Damietta as a result of Damietta's location, which is surrounded by bodies of water on all sides, and as a result of trade exchange between the people and inhabitants of the Levant and the Balkans since Damietta was Egypt's first port.

Damietta Governorate has the largest fishing fleet in the Arab Republic of Egypt, representing 60% of the fishing fleet in Egypt

Damietta Governorate has been famous since ancient times for the fishing vessel industry. This is due to the experience of the people of Damietta in the arts of navigation and sailing, in addition to the migration of a large number of the governorate's fishermen to work in fishing fleets in some European countries, which has given them extensive experience in this field.
The people of Ezbet El Borg specialize in this industry. The shipbuilding industry has been developed from wooden ships to iron ships equipped with the latest equipment to work in regional and international waters and the high seas. In 1989, the yacht industry began to appear in the city of Ezbet El Borg in Damietta Governorate. Recently, the demand for purchasing tourist yachts has increased due to the skill of the Damietta manufacturer in this field.

Damietta Governorate is famous for many promising industries that its economic sector has relied on. An example of these industries is the oriental sweets industry, where this industry flourishes and dates back to the age of the old Damietta port when Damietta had intertwined relations with the Levant and the eastern Mediterranean, through which the ancestors gained experiences that were later passed down through generations from the components that contributed to this fame.
This did not come out of nowhere, but because Damietta sweets are distinguished by their preservation of the first and main natural ingredients that our ancestors used many years ago, far from the use of artificial flavors and colors that are common these days.
Damietta sweets enjoy a good reputation among many inside and outside the country and they maintain their distinctive flavour. 
Confectionery factories and exhibitions selling them are spread in all centers, cities and villages of the governorate.
The cities of Damietta and Ras El Bar are considered among the most famous cities in the governorate in this industry, and exhibitions selling these sweets are widespread, especially for visitors to the governorate.