Moroccan Crafts — Leather Tanneries, Pottery & Artisans

Moroccan traditional crafts (the body of skills and techniques that has been practiced in Moroccan artisan workshops (the medersas (ateliers)) for centuries, representing one of the richest and most intact craft traditions in the world): the most important Moroccan crafts are: leather (the Moroccan leather industry, centred on the tanneries of Fez (the most famous, though Marrakech also has traditional tanneries), producing babouche (the Moroccan leather slipper), bags, belts, and decorative items), pottery (the traditional Moroccan painted pottery, particularly the distinctive black-on-white geometric designs of Salé and the multi-coloured painted pottery of Safi), and the zellij (the cut ceramic tilework that covers floors, walls, and fountains in traditional Moroccan architecture).