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News 04 Jun 2013 3 min read

The new design is being put in place in Fès

The kick-off of the 4th national craft exhibition, an event intended to highlight the richness, diversity, and authenticity of Moroccan items and products, was given on Monday in Fès in the presence of the Minister of Crafts, Abdessamad Kayouh.
The new design is being put in place in Fès
Initiated from 03 to 08 June at the initiative of the Ministry of Crafts and the Agency for Partnership for Progress and the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the fourth national craft exhibition allows the discovery of the manual dexterity and creative spirit of some 70 ordinary artisans from the cities of Fès and Marrakech through carefully selected and skilfully crafted works. The national exhibition offers to see and appreciate a wide choice of items combining tradition and modernity ranging from simple art and decoration objects to simple traditional costumes and ordinary products. The exhibited items, including tapestry, basketry, embroidery, wrought iron, carved wood, jewellery, ceramics, and copper products as well as carpets, highlight the richness and specificity of national craft items and their strong cultural and civilisational charge as well as an ancestral know-how jealou…

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