Carpet Sellers With Fez Are From

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Carpet sellers with fez are from.

I went to a carpet shop in fez with a group tour and did all right. Moroccan carpet shops in fez. Although we spent time in marrakesh meknes casablanca rabat and tangier all with their own brand of charm and interest it is to fes that i would return. All the featured rugs are available or similar styles and can be freighted anywhere in the world.

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. Nah i don t think i was ripped off. There are two main types of carpets in morocco. 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.

Scammed in morocco a tale of two carpets. 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. Coin berbere bouzidi idrissi freres 67 talaa kebira haddadine fez medina email protected tel.

Urban carpets and rural carpets. Our contributors are based in the fez medina and in other centres around morocco. You will find the shops on the talaa kebira in fez phone 0535636946 email bouzidi8000. 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 capital of urban carpet making is rabat and you may hear these pile weave carpets referred to as rabat carpets. 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. The asking prices are outrageous and i offered about 25 30 percent less and we met somewhere around 46 50 percent of the asking. But what they don t stress enough is how easy it is to be scammed in morocco especially by the carpet sellers of fes.

The view from fez pat. I read one blog that said a moroccan carpet salesman could sell a herd of camels to an eskimo.