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Abdelatif Instruments
Musicians make pilgrimages to the lute-maker's souq to watch beautiful music in the making, and here you can glimpse maâlem (master craftsman) Sidi Abdelatif carving lutes, tambourines, ginbris (two-stringed banjos), and ribabs (single-stringed fiddles). Since you're buying straight from the artisan himself, you can customize yours and get a better deal, too - music to every starving musician's ears.
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Aimad Roi Des Babouches
Quicker to catch on to new fashion trends than many other clothing shops in the souqs, Aimad also has a much more easygoing sales pitch. Recent styles include linen tunics edged with a crenulation motif you'll recognize from Koutoubia Minaret and well-lined sabra (cactus silk) slippers without the recently-tanned scent you'll find in shops closer to the tanneries.
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Association Al Kawtar
Bring some baraka (good vibes) to your table with hand-embroidered table linens in spare, striking designs, all made at a nonprofit vocational training and daycare centre for disabled women and their children. Exquisitely edged pillow cases, hand towels and napkins make lovely feel-good gifts at perfectly reasonable fixed prices.
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Assouss Cooperative D'argane
Argan oil is both a effective cosmetic and a tasty gourmet treat and the speciality of this women's cooperative. Get yours at this women-run shop, and reward artisanal producers for tough work sorting argan pits from goat dung, cracking the rock-hard pits open, and pressing oil from the nut. The richly emollient end product has long protected skin, and now European cosmetics companies use it as the secret botanical ingredient in high-end creams.
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Chez Azzedine
For small gifts, this place has all the trimmings. Passimenterie is the art of trim, including tassels, braiding and ingenious knotting, and here the Moroccan tradition is turned into snazzy silk necklaces, knotted key rings, and grand curtain ties finished with two-foot-long tassels.
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Couleurs Orientales Marrakesh
Your one-stop shop for snazzy Marrakesh mementos, including clever tasselled silk necklaces, striped silk flip-flops, and Tigmi cooperative placemats in deep orange with an embroidered zigzag edge. The fixed prices are less than what you'd pay for similar items along Rue de la Liberté.
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Jamade
As you might guess from Jamade's deep-purple floor and space-age orange ceramic tea sets, this is not your granny's idea of a Moroccan crafts shop. The stock is stylish and prices are fixed; featured local designers include Tigmi, the women's cooperative that embroiders coasters with striking symbols to bring Berber baraka (good vibes) to your coffee table.
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Michi
Berber wabisabi is the design ethic at Michi, a creative partnership of Japanese Marrakesh resident Masayoshi Ishida and Marrakshi master craftsmen. Together they've created a look that combines natural materials, spare forms, and a whimsical sense of humour: woven raffia wing-tip shoes, a long-handled mug with a tiny orangewood spoon, flour-sack tote bags lined with basketry.
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Sidi Ahmad Gabaz Stucco
Like any visitor with 20/20 vision, you may already be awestruck by the stucco detail up the street at the Ali ben Youssef Medersa - and this is your chance to take home a piece of the stucco action. Sidi Ahmad carves traditional geometric and floral designs right in his shop as well as sweet nothings in French, but with a day's turnaround he will very graciously carve your house number or whatever you like in English…just don't get any four-letter ideas, you naughty people.
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