Carpet Sellers With Fez Are From

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Carpet sellers with fez are from.

This is by no means an exhaustive list but here are a few stores that sell moroccan carpets that we shopped at during our search for the perfect rug. The asking prices are outrageous and i offered about 25 30 percent less and we met somewhere around 46 50 percent of the asking. Buying a fez carpet the salesman hassan with his workers at the rug shop co operative presenting a vast array of different rugs for us to choose from. You will find the shops on the talaa kebira in fez phone 0535636946 email bouzidi8000.

Ali s art gallery 17 souiket dahbane sagha dez. Scammed in morocco a tale of two carpets. The view from fez aims to promote interest and understanding of life in fez in particular and morocco in general. The capital of urban carpet making is rabat and you may hear these pile weave carpets referred to as rabat carpets.

Although we had no grand plans to buy a carpet in fez that all got turned on its head when we stepped into hassan s traditional rug shop and a whole new adventure began. The view from fez would like to thank the bouzidi idrissi family who generously gave of their time and expertise in compiling this series of articles. Coin berbere bouzidi idrissi freres 67 talaa kebira haddadine fez medina email protected tel. I went to a carpet shop in fez with a group tour and did all right.

I read one blog that said a moroccan carpet salesman could sell a herd of camels to an eskimo. Moroccan carpet shops in fez. There are two main types of carpets in morocco. But what they don t stress enough is how easy it is to be scammed in morocco especially by the carpet sellers of fes.

Our contributors are based in the fez medina and in other centres around morocco. I don t think a tourist will ever score a real bargain when negotiating with a carpet salesman but some post purchase research suggests i paid a fair and reasonable price. The view from fez pat. Nah i don t think i was ripped off.

Carpet making in rabat has been traced back to the 18th century and the technique for making these carpets has been passed down through the. The view from fez is produced in fez by the registered company.