The labels behind the craft

Zellige de Fès

شارة الجودة زليج فاس

Hand-cut glazed tile

Clay from the Fès region, shaped and glazed by hand, fired in traditional kilns, and cut tile-by-tile with a chisel. No moulds, no automated glazing, no machine cutting.

Registered with WIPO in Morocco’s name and defended in court against imitation. Granted by the Ministry with the Chamber of Handicrafts of Fès-Meknès and the National Committee for Distinctive Signs of Handicrafts.

Fès-MeknèsArchitecture

Poterie de Fès

فخار فاس

Blue-and-white pottery

Thrown and painted by hand in Fès, in the cobalt-on-white register the city is known for.

Distinct from Safi both in clay body and in decoration.

FèsFurniture

Poterie de Safi

خزف آسفي

Glazed ceramic

Made on the Colline des Potiers from local Safi clay, polychrome glazed and fired locally.

Safi is Morocco’s largest ceramic centre; the label separates workshop output from imported blanks.

SafiFurniture

Thuya d’Essaouira

عرعار الصويرة

Burl marquetry

Worked from Tetraclinis articulata burl root by Essaouira marquetry workshops, with inlay in cedar, lemon, walnut, ebony, mother-of-pearl or silver.

Morocco holds roughly 80% of world thuya reserves; the species is protected, so documented sourcing matters.

EssaouiraFurniture · Architecture

Cuir Naturel de Fès

جلد طبيعي فاس

Vegetable-tanned leather

Hides tanned in the Fès pits with lime and natural agents — chrome-free — then dyed with mineral and plant colour.

Three historic tanneries survive of the 86 recorded in 1325: Chouara, Sidi Moussa and Aïn Azliten. The French word maroquin comes from the country’s name.

Fès · ChouaraFashion · Furniture

Tapis Beni Ouarain

زربية بني وراين

Hand-knotted wool rug

Knotted by hand from undyed Middle Atlas fleece by the Beni Ouarain confederation, in the cream ground and dark lozenge geometry that defines the type.

Among the most copied Moroccan products worldwide, which is precisely why the collective mark exists.

Middle AtlasFurniture

Handira Moyen Atlas

هنديرة الأطلس المتوسط

Wedding blanket

Woven on traditional looms in wool and cotton, with the sequin and pom-pom work of the marriage cape.

Traditionally woven by the bride’s female relatives; commercial production keeps the technique alive.

Middle AtlasFurniture

Tazerzite

تازرزيت

Amazigh silver

Silver fibulae, pendants and chased jewellery made in the Souss workshops in the Amazigh vocabulary, in 925 silver.

Tiznit and Taroudant are the reference centres for chased and enamelled Amazigh silver.

Souss · TiznitFashion

Idoukan N’Oudrar

ادوكان ن ودرار

Doum & palm basketry

Baskets, mats and bags woven from doum, palm and raffia by mountain cooperatives.

Moroccan basketry (doum weaving) was inscribed on the UNESCO intangible heritage list in 2022.

AtlasFashion

Dar Sfifa

دار السفيفة

Passementerie & trim

Hand-braided sfifa and aakad trim and buttons, in silk and rayon, made in the Fès passementerie workshops.

The detail that makes a kaftan read as genuinely Moroccan rather than Moroccan-styled.

FèsFashion

Maroc Fait Main

المغرب صنع يدوي

Handmade guarantee

Declares the piece as genuinely handmade in Morocco rather than industrially produced or imported and finished locally.

Sits alongside the national Morocco Handmade label as the plain-language handmade guarantee.

NationalArchitecture · Furniture · Fashion

Marks fall into four families. Where a workshop holds the official artwork we display it; until then the geometric seal above stands in for it. The official artwork belongs to the Ministry and to the labelled workshop — ask for the file and the certificate number, and we will put both on the quotation. Our seals are our own rendering, used to identify each mark on this site. The official artwork belongs to the Ministry and is carried by the labelled workshops themselves — ask for it, and ask for the certificate number.

Morocco holds sixteen inscriptions on the UNESCO intangible cultural heritage lists. These four touch crafts in this catalogue directly. An inscription is not a product certification — it protects the practice, not the piece — but it tells you the tradition behind what you are buying is recognised internationally.