The next day, I asked the hotel to arrange a tour guide. The city seemed to be a maze set up for modern people in ancient times. Even with modern electronic maps in hand, nine thousand densely intertwined alleys, markets along the street, various ceramics, leather, carpets and dyeing workshops, and numerous small shops and stalls, you will be at a loss.

The guide took everyone through the alleys of the ancient city, enjoying the palaces, temples and craft workshops that blend the characteristics of *** and ancient Jewish culture, and the dried fruits and herbs in the market mixed with the smell of leather and dyes. The dazzling porcelain, carpets, leather bags and bronzes make people a little lost in this craft city.

I came to a ceramic workshop called poteriedefes, a small factory that still retains the ruins of the ancient kilns. I used a small courtyard to separate the areas of different processes. Each area has many craftsmen meticulously making each process of porcelain.

From the terracotta, coloring, firing, tracing and pasting of clay, you may be used to tourists' onlookers and ignore the flashing of the surrounding cameras.

Johnson discovered that local mosaic ceramics were completely different from Chinese porcelain. They were made of a gray mineral clay specialized in Fest. The colors were mainly blues. They were made of tiny pieces of porcelain and were made into various patterns and complex patterns.

It is pasted on the walls of the house, or even on washbasins, bowls, plates and other utensils, locally called zillige. Some are similar to our cloisonne, but cloisonne is a combination of copper and ceramics, while blue mosaic ceramics are a combination of clay and ceramic tiles.

Our cloisonne is beautiful with elegance and exquisiteness, while Moroccan ceramics are colorful, passionate and strong in style. Each product is a unique handmade product, with similar colors and different parts, with its unique charm and value.

Visitors from all over the world flock to it. No matter which country it is, it seems that the greatest interest is here, from washbasins, tabletops, ceilings, floor tiles, to jars, cups, kettles, bowls and plates, involving every element of life...

There are luxury goods worth tens of thousands of yuan per piece, and there are cute small plates worth more than a dozen yuan. Facing the dazzling array of colorful ceramic crafts, even Johnson couldn't help but buy a few as souvenirs.

Walking through the narrow alley and entering a house, although the small door is inconspicuous, there is a unique world inside. This is a handmade carpet factory. Entering the building, the courtyard patio three or four stories high, various carpets pour down like a waterfall, like a illusion. There are several women in the attic, weaving carpets. If it is production, it is more like a production demonstration for tourists.

The most famous is the Berber carpet. As the oldest nomadic people in Africa, it worships nature. The carpet is also the sand color of the African land, the brown color of rocks, and the camel color of camels. The patterns include desert ripples, camels, plants, etc.

When you pick up a piece, it looks very thick, but in fact it is exquisite in materials. Even with simple geometric patterns, the workmanship is very delicate, sturdy and durable. A good carpet can last for several generations.

A good pure fur carpet is not cheap. It is sold for 6,000 to 7,000 US dollars with pure plant dyes?

Without saying a word, I packed it back and put one piece in each house’s living room!

Finally, I came to the legendary notorious place, the leather processing factory, the oldest one has been around for thousands of years. The guide took everyone into a room full of leather products, picked up a mint leaf and let Johnson put it in front of his nose and smelled it. The cool mint fragrance still could not hide the pungent smell of leather products. No wonder it was nicknamed notorious.

Walking through the room surrounded by various leather and leather shoes, the saleswoman was excited to sell leather bags to several foreign tourists. The Moroccan sales are very convincing. Let’s start with the skins of cattle, sheep, and camels, and tell you how these skins are dyed with pure plants such as flowers.

Safflower comes from poppy, beige comes from pomegranate, green comes from mint, and brown comes from henna, letting you know that they are not products of modern industry.

Buy a few pairs and walk to the balcony of the room. At a glance, you can see that the backyard is a huge tanned leather terrace, with stone or soil dyeing vats connected into one piece, like a honeycomb filled with colorful dyes.

Workers are busy like bees, and the skins peeled from animals are stacked palely together. The first step is tanning skin. The processing method of tanning skin in modern factories is to use alum and sulfate to remove protein from the residual meat fur from the leather to make the leather soft.

The ancient leather method here is to soak cow urine, quicklime and salt together, and to soak and soften it with pigeon manure before dyeing. Although the materials are pure and natural, in the factory, the pungent smell cannot be dissipated for a long time.

I picked up a small piece of tanned sheepskin, which has been colored and feels very soft. It is said that many well-known European brands of leather come from here, such as lv?

No wonder it smells strange!

Walking in the alley, there are various small commodity shops on both sides, especially the shiny copper shops. Not only copper cups, copper pots, copper plates and copper basins, but also candlesticks and lampshades. The lights pass through the delicate patterns of the copper ware to create a dreamy scene, which has the feeling of an Aladdin magic lamp.

The craftsman in front of the store held a small hammer and tapped the copper skin carefully. After repeated hammering, he slowly formed into a plate or lampshade. Seeing the patterns being carved onto the bronze ware little by little, it is really the organic crystallization of mental and physical labor.

A huge lampshade has extremely delicate patterns. I don’t know how many days it takes to make this lampshade. There is also a very exquisite jewelry box. I really can’t believe that such delicate patterns are all hand-made.

Any pot and pan, I feel that all daily necessities can be knocked out with my hands. Next to me, there are two artists wearing Moroccan national costumes, beating drums and bronze postscripts, singing Moroccan folk songs, and performing specifically for tourists.

Finally, I climbed up to a high ground in the castle and overlooked the panoramic view of the ancient city that had been dormant for thousands of years. In the distance, shepherds took dogs and drove the flock of sheep by leisurely. What I couldn't help but see in my mind was the scenes of various workshops and factories.

The Industrial Revolution replaced manual production with machines, which brought extremely high production efficiency, but still could not eliminate the ancient industry that carries cultural value of manual manufacturing. Even if it will never become the mainstream of industrial production, it will definitely become a way for people to have cultural nostalgia.

From Egypt to here, around the corner, next to the stalls, and on the grass, it seems that cats can grow at any time?

Cats are not afraid of people, nor are they aggressive. They are basically casual and have gentle and friendly personalities. You can see cute little girls who are lazy and squinting their eyes and basking in the sun everywhere.

They were in groups of three or three, as if they were patrolling their territory, and they were the other owner of the city.

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