Artisan School, Tetouan, Morocco

An apprentice carving wood using a drawn stencil in a workshop in sculpted woodwork at the Artisan School or Dar Sanaa, founded 1919 under the Spanish Protectorate of Morocco, which teaches the traditional art and craft skills of woodwork, zellige, sculpted plaster, leatherwork, etc, in Tetouan on the slopes of Jbel Dersa in the Rif Mountains of Northern Morocco. Tetouan was of particular importance in the Islamic period from the 8th century, when it served as the main point of contact between Morocco and Andalusia. After the Reconquest, the town was rebuilt by Andalusian refugees who had been expelled by the Spanish. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Image Size: 5616x3744 / 3.9MB; www.manuelcohen.com; 20th century Africa African apprentice architecture art artisan Artisan School artisanal arts and crafts building carved carving chisel color color image colour colour image craft Dar Sanaa design Ecole des Arts et Métiers de Tétouan education Escuela de artes y oficios geometric Hispano-Islamic Hispano-Mauresque horizontal image indoors inside interior Islam Islamic learning lesson man Maroc Martil valley Mediterranean Sea Moorish Moroccan Morocco moslem muslim North Africa North African panel pattern people photograph photography port Rif mountains school School of Arts and Crafts sculpted sculpting skill stencil student Tangier-Tetouan Tetouan Tettawen Tetuan Titawin Tittawin tool tourism tourist attraction town traditional training travel wood woodwork work working workshop
Contained in galleries: Northern Morocco

An apprentice carving wood using a drawn stencil in a workshop in sculpted woodwork at the Artisan School or Dar Sanaa, founded 1919 under the Spanish Protectorate of Morocco, which teaches the traditional art and craft skills of woodwork, zellige, sculpted plaster, leatherwork, etc, in Tetouan on the slopes of Jbel Dersa in the Rif Mountains of Northern Morocco. Tetouan was of particular importance in the Islamic period from the 8th century, when it served as the main point of contact between Morocco and Andalusia. After the Reconquest, the town was rebuilt by Andalusian refugees who had been expelled by the Spanish. Picture by Manuel Cohen