Behind the workshop

Before the lights: a Fès copper atelier at dawn

Most visitors meet copperware in the souk, gleaming under lamps. Few see the bench at six in the morning: filings swept, tools hung, tea poured before the first commission of the day.

“We work for weddings, mosques, and homes. The order changes; the discipline does not.”

— Fatima-Zahra Bennani
Copper and zellige share the same city of light

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