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The last of the authentic craftsmen of raffia shoes in Tangier

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Thanks to an article published on the site Tangier-experience and following the indications therein, I was able to meet one of the two last craftsmen of raffia shoes in Tangier: Ahmed ZEGGAF. Ahmed ZEGGAF: The last of the authentic craftsmen of raffia shoes in Tangier The production of raffia shoes in Morocco The producers of raffia shoes are blooming recently in some cities of Morocco (Marrakech, Essaouira, Casablanca ...), in response to an international demand for products that are both natural / environmentally friendly and moose. These producers often train in cooperatives, male or female, and respond to orders mainly destined abroad with well-defined models and multiple dyes. Ahmed ZEGGAF, an authentic craftsman While visiting the small workshop of Ahmed, one realizes quite quickly that it has remained safe from the influences of fashion, that reproduces identically the same gestures of the beginning of his career, ancestral gestures , inherited from a Spanish tr