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image.php?image=b17maartent922.jpg&dl=1Method and different techniques passed on through specialized relations where a chief maalem explains to learners and inspects their skills are at the essential of Moroccan crafts. An extensive collection of enterprises syndicates Arabic calligraphy, elegant foliage, and knowledgeable geometry archetypal of urban design with the abruptly conventional birds, animals, meanders, trios, and squares of Berber source.

image.php?image=b17maartent927.jpg&dl=1Techniques were formally fortified during the French territory (1912-56) through the expert research of scholars and teachers who all have learned during the control of King Hassan II (1961-99), who supported government handiwork centers and training arrangements and working craftsmen on main projects such as the prodigious mosque trekking in morocco atlas mountains the modern Casablanca.

Overseas investment and the development of tourism are influential incentives for the endurance of these old-fashioned crafts. Owners of hotels, guesthouses, and isolated homes employ builders, decorators, tile creators, metalworkers, weavers, wood and stucco carvers, and embroiderers to create attractive and contentedly well-appointed environments. Temporarily, marketplaces are full of goods -- ceramics, jewelry, clothes, leather bags, slippers -- to appeal tourists, and fashionable Moroccan fashion designers make excellent use of traditional fabrics and ornamental techniques in their gatherings in all inclusive holidays to toubkal morocco marrakech.

Architecture -- Within the majestic cities of Fes, Marrakech, Meknes, and Rabat, outmoded life was created on the antique Medina where beautiful houses, ancient souks, and craftsmen's plants bunched around communal buildings such as the beautiful mosque, where atlas mountains located the Medersa (education institution), foundouk (tourists inn), communal fountain, and hammam (steam bath house). The monarch's palace was frequently located in a defined space outside the antique Medina.



Constructions follow to a basic square or square with an open court concealed from the outside world by high walls. Columned arcades surround the courts of mosques and madrasas, one or two stories of rooms enclose the small courtyard of a dar, and walls frame the garden of a riad.

Outside the big cities, the remarkable Kasbah's -- dwellings of local rulers -- and the ksar -- encouraged villages -- also have walls enclosing living and storage areas. Before the advent of concrete, bricks made of clay, gravel, and lime were the main building material, preserving local stone for precise landscapes. Graystone extracted near the beautiful port of Essaouira, for example, was used to shape the columns and arcades of warehouses and the surrounds of doors and windows, imprinted in complicated designs of foliage, stars, and badges.

The local mineral is used in floors, columns, and cascades in wealthy homes. Brick fortifications are frequently ornamented in the method of tadelakt, which also gives walls a tough, water-resistant, Ouzoud Falls Morocco and gorgeous polished exterior. This craft comprises numerous stages, including the request of a plaster of pulverized sandstone mixed with pigments -- regularly yellow, rust, brown, or beautiful green -- which are gleaming when dry and cultured with oily black soap.








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