FES TANNERIES

Welcome to the tanneries of Fes, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Once described as 'The site of a miracle, the suppression of the passage of time', this age-old process is now under threat by modernisation, with talk of a purpose built factory being built on the outskirts of town.

After almost a millennia is time finally running out for the medievel process of producing handmade leather goods in Fes?

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

© Richard Taylor

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