Fez Tannery
by Ivan Slosar
Title
Fez Tannery
Artist
Ivan Slosar
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Photograph
Description
The oldest leather tannery in the world. The tannery dates back at least nine centuries. The tannery has numerous stone vessels filled with different dyes and various odorous liquids. The tannery processes the skins of sheep and goats, turning them into high quality leather products such as bags, coats, shoes, slippers and other similar products. This is all done manually. The workers stand in the stone vessels arranged like honeycombs, filled with different dyes. The hides are first soaked in diluted acidic pigeon excrement and then transferred to other vessels containing vegetable dyes such as henna, saffron and mint. When the dying process has been completed the hides are dried on the roofs of the Medina.
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August 26th, 2012
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