Come and join us on one of our unique worshops and learn about our ancestral
Moroccan textiles, hand in our custom-designers ateliers.
Gain an intimate, hands-on experience of our work, immersing yourself in heritage skills
and long-etablished weaving and dyeing traditions that have been passed down
between generations amongst High Atlas Mountain tribes.
Our atelier is located in the small, quintessential town of Ait Ourir, at the foothills of the
high Atlas Montains and just 35 minute drive from Marrakech.
Escape the hustle and
bustle of the city and come and experience a truly authentic side of Morocco.
Riad Marrakech
Natural Dye Workshop (half-day)
Departure from the riad at: 09.15 and 13.45
Learn how to dye local wool using Henna, a natural dye derived from the Lawsonia
Inermis plant. Its use goes back over 5000 years with a symbolic place in the cultural
and religious history of Morocco.
This hand-on workshop takes place in our custom-built dye kitchen on the rooftop of our
studio in Ait Ourir, with plenty of shade and far reaching views of the Atlas Mountains.
Our in-house dye master will teach you how to prepare the wool for dyeing and how to
create a collection of beautiful earth tones using Henna and various other natural
ingredients.
Price of this activity (transport included) 560 Dirhams cash / 56 euros
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Weaving Workshop (half day)
Departure from the riad at: 09.15 and 13.45
All of our handwoven rugs are crafted in our own atelier using the recovered and almost long-lost thechnique of Berber knot, found nowhere else in the world but in the Atlas Mountains.
In this half day workshop, you will learn how to weave on a wooden frame loom using this special knot with ou Henna dyed wool.
You will also learn about traditional Amazigh (Berber) symbols as used by the weavers in their carpet designs.
At the end of the workshop you will cut the work off the loom to take with you. You also have the option to pruchase the frame loom and take it away with you to continue weaving at your leisure.
Price of this activity (transport included) 560 Dirhams cash /110 euros
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Dye & Weave Workshop (fulLl day)
Departure from the riad at: 09.15
A full day incorporationg both the dye and weave workshop and includes a delicious home cooked lunch served with the team from Atelier Talasin our in-housse dye masters will teach you how to prepare the wool for dyeing and how to create a collection of beautiful earth tones using Henna and various othe natural ingredients for you to weave with after lunch.
In the afternoon thread up and weave on a simple wooden frame loom using your Henna dyed wool.
You will be taught how to weave with the special Berber knot and explore Amazigh (Berber) symbols as used by the weavers in their carpet designs.
Price of this activity (transport included) 1100 Dirhams cash /110 euros
Riad Marrakech
Visit Dye & Weave Atelier ( 2 hours)
This experience offers a unique opportunity to go off the beaten track and see behind the scenes of our work at Atelier Talasin !
The informative tour will introduce you to the history, philosophy and techniques we use to hand craft our rugs and what makes us distinctly unique in the world of rug making.
You will see examples of the carpets we produce and visit the dye masters at work in the rooftop dye studio. Then it is over to our weaving atelier in the nearby village of Ait Moulay where the weavers live and work. Here you can watch them prepare and hand spin the wool and even have an opportunity to sit at one of the looms and learn to make the unique Berber knot used in our carpets.
The tour will include a walkthrough the village followed by tea in one of the weaver’s homes whilst getting a henna tattoo (optional) offerred by a local artist.
A portion of the proceeds from your visit goes towards the weavers cooperative which finances social projects in the community, including reading and writting classes for the
weavers.
Price of this activity (transport included) 380 Dirhams cash / 38 euros
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Cultural visit to the High Atlas (full day)
Departure from the riad at: 08:45
Get off the beaten track and come with us into the very heart of the High Altas Moutains. We will take you up a remote valley with spectacular scenery and join a community of montain village women from the Amazigh (Berber) tribe.
This day trip will after a behind-the-scenes access to where and how the Siroua wool we use to weave our rugs is hand washed and spun using ancestral techniques. Our manyyears of working with this tribal community opens the doorto an intimate and unique insight into their local culture and way of life, normally inaccessible to outsiders, we begin the day by travelling in a private vehicle up into the High Atlas Mountains, a range of towering peaks and villages perched precariously on mountainsides.
We will be met by our community of village women at the banks of the river who will have tea prepared for us before joining them in the process of washing the raw Siroua wool by hand.
Applying age old techniques of batting the fibre to excrete the rich, soapy lanolin within it’s fibers. this process avoids entirely the use of chemical detergents leaving the fleece beautifully clean. we then head further up the valley to the women’s village where a delicious Moroccan lunch will be served in a traditional Amazigh mountain home in the afternoon we will take a short walk to another home where the local women will teach you how to card and spin the fleece using a drop spindle.
The day is wrapped up with another warm Moroccan tea before heading back home.
Price of this activity (transport included) 1320 Dirhams cash /132 euros
