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Tailors in Saudi Arabia Kaaba Kiswa factory have started embroidering on a 14 metre long pure silk cloth that is dyed black with 120 kg of gold strings and 25 kg of silver threads called kiswa. It is the cloth which covers the Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. It is draped annually over the Kaaba at dawn on the ninth of Dhu Hijjah.