Carpet Cooperative Morocco

Shopping at fes carpet and rug co operative dar zarbia during a 3 5 hour walking tour through the fes medina with a small group of 10 plus a local tourist guide momo and a security man to make sure nobody in our group got lost we enjoyed opportunities to do some shopping.

Carpet cooperative morocco.

We and others in our group were harshly berated to buy a rug to help out the widows and children the rugs were acquired from. Our tour guide insight tours the best of morocco took the entire tour group to fes carpets cooperative in fes a supposedly insight approved shop. Ikhefnighir berber carpet cooperative coopérative féminine douar ikhef nighir tabant azilal maroc 22450 azilal morocco rated 5 based on 1 review. We were repeatedly told that this was the place to go the best and most unique rugs without parallel.

The cooperative was founded in taza in 1978 by a group of 7 weavers who wished to combine their talents and create an atmosphere in which their skills could be given free reign. Probably this video is only for carpet and rug enthusiasts but the opening scene is quite interesting because it demonstrates how a. A visit to the berber carpet co operative in tétouan morocco. Buy handmade fair trade moroccan handicrafts including moroccan rugs beni ourains and art directly from the artisans who made it.

17 weavers currently comprise the cooperative producing a variety of carpets and rugs out of the highest quality wool each knot telling a piece of the history of morocco. The most egregious of our trip to morocco was going to the rug co op in fes called aux marveilles du tapis. Again this is a carpet with a high shaggy pile. We ended up spending 2 000 us on 2 rugs that we ended up seeing in marrakech for 1 10 the cost the day after.

See the detail photograph below.