Vakmanschap
Wij bewaren een referentiemonster van elke gecertificeerde werkplaats en toetsen de productie daaraan, niet aan een foto.
MMA-gecertificeerd
Craft Certifications
Geen badge die wij drukken. Een vijfpunts-audit die wij persoonlijk, jaarlijks, in elke werkplaats uitvoeren waaruit wij offreren — en de reden dat wij een fout zonder discussie op onze kosten opnieuw kunnen maken.
Capaciteit
Eerlijke doorvoer, geverifieerd. Een genoemde levertijd kan de werkplaats ook in het hoogseizoen waarmaken.
Arbeidsomstandigheden
Veilige werkplaats, geen kinderarbeid, eerlijk loon, jaarlijks herzien. Wij lopen zelf over de werkvloer.
Materialen
Traceerbare klei, huid, wol en hout. Chroomvrij looien waar vermeld, geverifieerd bij de looierij.
Exportgereedheid
Consistentie tussen het eerste exemplaar en het honderdste stuk.
De garantie
Is het fout, dan wordt het opnieuw gemaakt
- Alles wordt bij het inpakken gefotografeerd — een transportclaim is papierwerk op verzekerde vracht, geen geschil met ons.
- Werkplaatsfouten worden op onze kosten opnieuw gemaakt, bij de volgende ovengang.
- Niets wordt verscheept dat we niet zelf zouden goedkeuren.
- Nul onopgeloste claims in negen jaar export.
- 0
- onopgeloste claims in 9 jaar
- 40+
- gecertificeerde werkplaatsen
- 5
- audit-punten, jaarlijks
- 34
- verscheepte containers
The framework
Certification is law here, not marketing
Moroccan handicraft certification runs through the Ministry of Tourism, Handicrafts and the Social and Solidarity Economy. Marks are granted with the regional Chambers of Handicrafts and the National Committee for Distinctive Signs of Handicrafts, and they are enforced — the Ministry has taken counterfeiters to court.
For a buyer abroad this matters more than any supplier’s own claim: a label is a third party, with published rules of use, saying the piece is what it says it is.
- 01Law 133-12The national legal framework for certifying and protecting authentic traditional Moroccan handicrafts.
- 0269 collective marksLabels registered by the Ministry as collective certification marks, each with its own rules of use.
- 03National CommitteeThe National Committee for Distinctive Signs of Handicrafts, with the regional Chambers of Handicrafts, grants the marks.
- 04EnforcementThe Ministry has brought court actions to protect Zellige de Fès and Taza-Taounate basketry against counterfeiting.
- 05External auditCertification is carried out by independent certifying bodies appointed by public tender, not by the Ministry alone.
National label
Morocco Handmade
Label National de l’Artisanat du Maroc · العلامة الوطنية للصناعة التقليدية
Awarded by the Département chargé de l’Artisanat since 2013.
~350 production units labelled
Level 1Product conformityThe piece meets the published quality specification for its craft.
Level 2Production unitThe workshop itself is assessed — process, materials, working conditions.
Level 3ExcellenceHighest tier: consistent quality across output, and export readiness.
Open to mono-artisans, companies and cooperatives alike. It is the umbrella mark above every other Moroccan craft label.
Morocco Handmade · Maroc Fait Main · Al Maghrib Ssona’i Yadawi
Collective marks
Eleven labels our workshops carry
C1
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
C2
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
C3
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
C4
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
C5
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
C6
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
C7
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
C8
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
C9
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
C10
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
MH
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
Qualité PrémiumThe top quality tier for a craft.
Qualité CertifiéeMade to international (EU / US) standards, checked by an external certifying body.
Artisan ResponsableResponsible production: conditions, materials, conduct.
Produit RégionalOrigin-bound marks tied to a named region or town.
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.
UNESCO
Recognised traditions behind the catalogue
2025CaftanArt, traditions and know-how of the Moroccan caftan — the Fès, Rabat and Tétouan schools.
2022Doum & palm weavingBasketry know-how, practices and products across the Rif and the Atlas.
2021Maghribi calligraphyMaghribi, Kufic and Thuluth scripts — writing as architecture.
2014ArganPractices and know-how of the argan tree, Souss and the Atlas.
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.
How this connects to MMA Certified
Two layers, doing different jobs
A1
We check the label at audit
Verifying which collective mark a workshop holds, and that the certificate is current, is part of the A1 ownership check. A workshop claiming a label it does not hold does not pass.
A3
Traceability follows the mark
Most labels carry origin rules — Fès clay, Middle Atlas fleece, protected thuya. Those rules are what our material traceability point actually tests against.
MMA
Our seal sits on top
MMA Certified does not replace a national label and never claims to. It adds what a label cannot: capacity, fair pay and export-grade packing, re-checked every year.
Five-point auditRead →
We publish what we hold, what we are in the middle of obtaining, and what we run ourselves — labelled separately, so you can tell the difference at a glance. Every registration number on this page is verifiable against a Moroccan public register before you commit to an order.
Our own programme
Commitments we make and run ourselves. We keep these separate from certified items on purpose — nothing below is third-party certified.
MMA Workshop Programme
Our own programmeIssued by My Moroccan Artisans — in-house
Our own annual review of every partner workshop across five points: craft quality, capacity, working conditions, materials and export readiness. This is our programme, run by our team. It is not a third-party certification, and we do not present it as one.
Run by us, not certified by a third party.
Sample-before-production guarantee
Our own programmeIssued by My Moroccan Artisans — in-house
You approve a physical sample before a production run starts. Workshop defects are remade at our cost. A commercial commitment from us, backed by our terms of sale.
Run by us, not certified by a third party.
Production & crating photo report
Our own programmeIssued by My Moroccan Artisans — in-house
Dated photo documentation during production and at crating, released before the balance payment falls due.
Run by us, not certified by a third party.
Third-party pre-shipment inspection welcome
Our own programmeIssued by Buyer's choice of SGS, Bureau Veritas, Intertek or TÜV
You may appoint any inspection body to check the order at our premises before it ships, at your cost. We give access and documentation. An open invitation, not a certificate.
Run by us, not certified by a third party.
Need a document we have not published?
Test reports, certificates of origin and audit summaries are released per order and per product. Tell us the product and the destination market and we will send what your broker and compliance team need. Write to trade@my-moroccan-artisans.com.
The labels above are state marks held by workshops. Our own five-point audit is separate — see MMA Certified: how we audit workshops.
Het proces
Van eerste e-mail tot geopende kist
Een gestructureerd proces, verfijnd in negen jaar export — zodat een overzeese koper nooit gokt.
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Dag 0–1
Stuur uw aanvraag
Tekeningen, referenties of een ruwe lijst volstaan. Wij koppelen haar aan geauditeerde werkplaatsen en sturen een gespecificeerde offerte met stukprijzen, MOQ's en levertijden terug.
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Week 1–3
Bemonsteren & bevestigen
Fysieke monsters gaan naar u toe. Glazuren, afwerkingen en maten worden schriftelijk goedgekeurd voordat er iets in productie gaat.
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03
In productie
Wij bewaken de kwaliteit
Ons team inspecteert in elke fase en stuurt fotorapporten. Niets wordt verscheept dat we niet zelf zouden goedkeuren.
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Week 8–14
Geconsolideerde verzending
Meerdere werkplaatsen laden in één container. Exportpapieren, fumigatie en kisten geregeld — FOB Casablanca of franco huis.
Zakelijke beoordelingen
Wat kopers zeggen als de container is aangekomen
★★★★★
Het proefpaneel kwam vóór onze toezegging, en de uiteindelijke zellige kwam ermee overeen. Dat is het hele vak, goed gedaan.
★★★★★
Eén contactpersoon in Fès, één container, één factuur. Onze restauratie haalde haar openingsdatum.
★★★★★
Fotorapporten in elke fase betekenden geen verrassingen in de haven. We hebben sindsdien twee keer nabesteld.
★★★★★
Private-label leer vanaf 50 stuks liet ons een lijn testen zonder het kapitaal van een seizoen vast te zetten.
Klaar om uw project te prijzen?
Stuur tekeningen, een moodboard of een ruwe lijst. U krijgt binnen 48 uur een gespecificeerde offerte met stukprijzen, MOQ's en levertijden — van een mens, niet van een bot.