Souk & market · Mouassine
Dyers’ Souk (Souk des Teinturiers)
Skeins of freshly dyed wool hanging across the lanes near Mouassine, in deep reds, yellows and blues.
- Opening hours
- Always open
- Ticket
- Free
- Time needed
- 20 min
- Best time
- Morning
- Jemaa el-Fna
- 10 min on foot
Why go
It is a few lanes off the Mouassine route, and many visitors never find it without help.
The dyers colour the wool that becomes the carpets and textiles of the souks. Vats steam in the workshops below the drying skeins; natural dyes give slightly uneven colours.
Tips
- Come in the morning, when the new skeins are hung out to dry.
- Photo tip: Looking up the lane at the skeins against the sky, mid-morning.
Practical
Mouassine, Medina, Marrakech
10 min on foot from Jemaa el-Fna
Always open
Free
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