Does a Doha shop have to show a price on each canvas it hangs?

The Consumer Rights Guide (2024) from Qatar’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry says displayed goods carry a price in Qatari riyals. The price goes either on the item with the supplier’s name, or on a price notice where the item is displayed. Article 17 of Qatar’s Consumer Protection Law, Law No. 8 of 2008, requires Arabic for this data and allows other languages alongside it. Neither the guide nor Article 3 of Regulation 68 of 2012 mentions artworks, so check with your adviser whether it covers a canvas. We can include a packing list with every painting’s artwork code and size, so you can prepare your own price notices before the canvases go up.

Can a Doha gallery run more than one discount period on canvases in a year?

Shops in Qatar may request a license for discounts covering several periods in one year, The Peninsula reported in April 2025. The change came with Decision No. 4 of 2025 from the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. If you plan a National Day or Ramadan offer, set those dates when you place the seasonal order. Check the ministry’s current requirements before you apply.

Can a Doha gallery test the Arabic lettering on one canvas before the slogan order?

Yes, a Doha gallery can order one calligraphy canvas as a sample, as a separate single-piece order priced on its own. For example, it could carry a Nabati couplet your gallery supplies while the slogan is still unannounced. We suggest painting it at the size you plan to stock most, so you judge the lettering at the scale your customers will see.

Which National Day canvases can a Doha gallery reorder the following year?

A Doha gallery can reorder its heritage designs, such as dhows, pearling scenes and maroon and white canvases, for the next National Day. We paint each one again from its artwork code and the daylight photos you approved. A slogan canvas carries one year’s words, so we suggest briefing new slogan canvases each year instead. Each repeat is painted by hand again, so it comes very close to the first canvas but is never identical. For a new size, list the design as its own line with the new width and height.

If the slogan canvases follow later, can the two Doha orders be told apart on arrival?

Yes, we can mark each case for Doha by artwork code. Your team can then match each case to order one or order two from the artwork codes on the packing list. Each slogan canvas can also be checked against the daylight photos you approved before it shipped.

Doha Gallery Canvases for National Day

01 / National Day in two orders

Qatar National Day is 18 December, and the slogan comes weeks later than your heritage canvases need

Qatar celebrates National Day on 18 December every year. The day also carries an official slogan. In 2025, the organizing committee announced it on 9 November, only weeks before the day. In 2022, the Minister of Culture launched it on 23 October. When we checked the Ministry of Culture’s news on 1 October 2026, no 2026 slogan had been announced.

So we suggest splitting your seasonal stock into two orders. Order one holds subjects that need no slogan: maroon and white designs, dhows, pearling and other heritage scenes. Nothing in them waits on the announcement, so you can brief them early in the season.

Order two holds the canvases that carry the year’s slogan in calligraphy. It can only be briefed once the words are public, so we suggest keeping it small. A slogan canvas is tied to one year’s words, and a small order leaves you less to carry past 18 December. For order two, rush production can be requested, and we confirm a feasible date for your actual order.

Planning example: illustrative numbers

Two separate orders for one National Day season, not a real gallery’s stock.

Order one: heritage canvasesFor example, twelve canvases in maroon and white, with dhows and pearling scenes, briefed early in the season.
Order two: slogan canvasesFor example, three calligraphy canvases carrying the year’s slogan, briefed after the announcement.

02 / Every Arabic line written out

Write every Arabic line into the brief before a Doha calligraphy canvas is painted

On a calligraphy canvas, the words are the subject. List each line of text your canvases will carry, exactly as it should read. Our painter then copies only the wording you approved.

Three kinds of line to check first

The National Day slogan. Copy it word for word from the official announcement.
The State Emblem. Qatar’s emblem is covered by Law No. 2 of 2025 and a usage guide, Cabinet Resolution No. 19 of 2025. The sources we checked do not say whether a painting needs approval. As a cautious step, we suggest leaving the emblem out unless you hold written permission to use it.
A Quranic verse. Article 56 of Qatar’s Law No. 8 of 1979 is listed as in force on Al Meezan. It covers copies of the Holy Quran or parts of them, in the form of publications or audio recordings. Article 1 of the same law counts drawings among publications. Article 56 says such copies may not be imported or circulated without a special import license. Imported copies must also be attested by a competent authority in the Arab or Islamic country they are imported from. Qatar’s authority for religious affairs must then endorse that attestation. Article 56 itself does not mention paintings or calligraphy canvases. Before you confirm a verse line, ask the Ministry of Culture’s Publications and Artistic Works Services or your adviser. The rest of the order can go ahead.

Poetry, proverbs, family names and a phrase your customer supplies are not among these three checks, unless the words quote the Quran. Abstract letterforms with no readable text are not among them either. Showing imported paintings in a shop window is a separate question under the same 1979 law, and our Doha shop guide covers it.

You get photos and short videos as the painting goes, and you check every line of lettering in the daylight photos of each finished canvas before shipping. Our painting process page shows how each canvas is made.

03 / Sized to the customer’s frame

The frame your Doha customer picked sets the painted size, and Qatar’s invoice rules list a delivery date

For a walk-in photo-to-painting commission, the ready-made frame your customer picked sets the size we paint.

One Doha print-and-frame chain shows how small those frames can be. When we went through its online catalog in early October 2026, most ready-made models stopped at 12 x 18 inches. Its own labels give that as 30 x 46 cm. Two models went up to 16 x 20 inches, and its only metric models reached 50 x 70 cm.

So send us the frame opening and any overlap you need, in inches or cm. A larger image points to custom framing in Doha.

What a Doha customer chooses at the counter, and what goes on our order
Your customer chooses	What goes on our order
A ready-made frame in inches, such as 12 x 18 in or 16 x 20 in	The frame opening in inches, plus any overlap you need.
A metric ready-made frame up to 50 x 70 cm	The frame opening in cm, plus any overlap you need.
A larger or custom size	The visible image size, with the frame made to measure in Doha.
A date to collect the painting	Nothing yet. We suggest setting it after we confirm a date for your order, with transport, stretching and framing added.

The date matters at a Doha counter. Article 4 of Qatar’s Regulation 68 of 2012 lists the details on a supplier’s Arabic invoice to the consumer. They include the type of goods and their essential features, the price in riyals and the delivery date. Your adviser can tell you how this fits a commission.

Give your customer a date only after we confirm ours

We suggest waiting until we confirm a date for your actual order. Then add every stage still to come after that date, such as transport, stretching and framing.

04 / A yes from the Doha stretcher

Before a canvas ships rolled to Doha, get a written yes from the shop that will stretch it

A rolled canvas still needs stretching in Doha before it can hang. We suggest choosing rolled delivery only after a Doha shop confirms in writing that it will stretch a painted canvas at your size.

One Doha print-and-frame chain stretches canvas at selected branches, including Salwa Road, Al Sadd and Rayyan. The 2 to 3 business days it publishes are for its own canvas prints. Its canvas page gives no maximum size or edge requirement, and says nothing about canvases painted elsewhere.

One Doha art-supply shop at the Fire Station lists a 36 mm-deep stretcher bar on its website. The page gives lengths up to 180 cm in its description and up to 200 cm in its size list.

A side longer than the bars your Doha shop stocks, or heavy texture, points to stretched or framed delivery from us. That is quoted as its own option.

Oversized horizontal palette-knife painting of golden autumn trees along a winding blue river below soft purple mountains, in a thin gold frame on a white background — 01 / A long sideGolden trees along a winding river.

Oversized horizontal impressionist painting of a turquoise cove framed by tall pine trees, with moored sailboats and yellow and red wildflowers in the foreground, in a thin black frame on a white background — 02 / A wide formatBoats moored in a pine-lined cove.

Two catalog paintings, not Doha stock. A long canvas like these can outrun the bars a Doha shop stocks.

Three answers to get in writing

Will you stretch a canvas that was painted somewhere else?
Is its longest side within the bars you stock?
Does 5 cm of blank canvas on every side suit you?

05 / Text lines and the stretcher

Every Arabic line and the stretcher’s written yes: what a Doha quote waits on

A Doha quote waits on two answers. For a calligraphy canvas, we need every Arabic line word for word. Slogan lines join order two once the words are public.

For a rolled line, we need the Doha shop that agreed in writing to stretch it. If no shop has said yes yet, we can quote that line stretched or framed too.

For National Day, order one now and order two later, as separate lines.
Every Arabic text line, written out exactly as it should read.
Each image with its width and height, and the quantity of each.
For a counter commission, the frame opening and the date you need the canvas in your shop.
Rolled, stretched or framed. For rolled, the Doha shop that agreed to stretch it.
Your Doha delivery address.

Studio order & delivery terms

Made by hand: Painted directly on premium linen, with no printed base. Acrylic is standard; oil is available on request. One painter takes each canvas from the first marks to the last.
One piece or a collection: Orders start at one painting, with quantity tiers from 6 and 21 pieces. Mixed designs count together. A sample is a separate single-piece order, priced on its own and not credited against a later order.
Rolled, stretched or framed: You choose the image width and height. Suitable rolled work includes an extra 5 cm of blank canvas on every side for stretching or framing. Please mention a larger allowance before production. Heavy texture should travel stretched or framed.
A complete delivery quote: Your quote sets out the artwork, presentation and delivery charges. We work with more than 200 logistics partners to compare express and sea options. Most destinations are served on DDP terms, with exceptions where local customs rules require another arrangement. The quote states the delivery terms for Qatar.
Time for each stage: Painting, your review, transport and any local framing are separate stages. Rush production can be requested, and we confirm a feasible date for the actual order.
Payment: Usually a 50% deposit, with the balance after final approval and before shipping.

Hand-Painted National Day Canvases and Frame-Sized Commissions for Doha Galleries and Framers