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Popular with the international jet set, the Khalid Art Gallery is a gorgeous riad full of the most sought-after Moroccan antiques, Jewish-Moroccan treasures, and Amazigh pieces. Owner Khalid speaks excellent English and is an authority on most of the art coming out of Marrakesh.
14, rue Dar el Basha, Marrakesh, Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco
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Bab Doukkala
The highly respected Le Trésor des Nomades---often referred to just by the name of its owner, Mustapha Blaoui---extends over several floors and two adjacent properties. Here you'll find antique doors, lanterns, vintage tribal carpets, mats from Mauritania, Amazigh jewelry, and all kinds of crafted furniture, housewares, and textiles. It's so well-known that there is no sign over the door.
Shipping can be arranged for large purchases.
142, rue Bab Doukkala, Marrakesh, Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco
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Medina
This riad turned art gallery and tearoom is filled with original artwork by owner Hassan Hajjaj who's known as Morocco's Andy Warhol. True to the artist's pop aesthetic, expect to find colorful portraits blending pop culture and the artist's own fashions. Smaller items include notebooks, posters, and upcycled lanterns made from sardine tins.
52, Derb Aarjane, Marrakesh, Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco
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Medina
To get to the fabric and wool souk, use the Mouassine Mosque as a landmark, and keep the Mouassine fountain on your right while you continue until the street widens out with shops on either side. At the point where it branches into two alleys running either side of a shop selling handmade lamps and textiles, take an immediate sharp left turn. Follow that derb and look for the helpful word "teinturies" in spray paint and then head right. Souk des Teinturiers is also called Souk Sebbaghine. The main square for fabric dyeing is hidden down a little shimmy to the right and then immediately left, but anyone can (and likely will) direct you. Here you'll see men dipping fabrics into vats full of hot dye. Look up to see scarves and skeins of wool hanging all over, in individual sets of the same bright colors.
For the best view, head into the dyers' square and ask to be led into the boutique. A dyer can show you the powders that the colors come from. A lovely bit of magic involves the fact that green powder dyes fabric red; red powder dyes things blue; and yellow powder dyes things purple. Head up the steep stairs and onto the roof if you're allowed—a spectacular view of industry unfolds, with headscarves and threads of every color hanging up to dry in separate color blocks all over the rooftops.
Marrakesh, Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco
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Medina
Just a quick turn right and then left out of the Souk Lghzal (via Rue Souk Semarine) is the large square called Souk Rahba Qdima. This square is surrounded by small shops that sell everything from cure-alls to run-of-the-mill salt and pepper and just about everything in between. In the center of the square are lots of woven baskets and hats for sale. You'll also find ladies pounding henna leaves to create henna powder. If shopping isn't your for you, head to the rooftop of nearby Nomad for a glass of tea and a bird's-eye view.
Marrakesh, Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco
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The stock here tends to tastefully redesigned takes on Moroccan classic items like babouche slippers and hand-sewn buttery soft leather bags.
38 Souk Kimakhin, Marrakesh, Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco
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Medina
This apothecary is stuffed from floor to ceiling with spices, perfumes, argan oil, and traditional medicines for ailments such as rheumatism and back pain. The helpful staff speak fluent English, and credit cards are accepted.
Rue sidi el Yamani, Marrakesh, Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco
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Medina
This boutique displays lovely hand-embroidered items all created in a workshop that benefits and trains women with disabilities. Clothing, table linen, bed linen, and home accessories are some of the items available.
57, rue el Ksour, Marrakesh, Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco
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Medina
Handcrafted jewelry from southern Morocco of Amazigh, Touareg, and Blue Men traditions is what this shop is known for. Camel-skin decorated dromedary carry packs and ornately carved wooden Touareg tent pegs reminiscent of tribal caravans or bygone times also line the shelves.
176, Rahba Lakdima, Marrakesh, Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco
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Mellah
This shop sells bespoke caftans and tunics made with the highest quality fabrics—cashmeres, linens, silks—all hand-embroidered. Celebrity clients include Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks, and Hugh Jackman.
Derb Jdid, Bab Mellah, Marrakesh, Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco
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Medina
Run by the Marrakshis Lamdaghri family since 1940, this shop works with more than 200 artisans and has a huge collection of old and new tribal carpets as well as antique Imazighen textiles.
Worldwide shipping can be arranged and credit cards are accepted.
117 and 14, souk des Tapis, Marrakesh, Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco
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Medina
The main carpet souk—called the Souk Zrabia or Le Criée Berbère—has a flat, shiny floor in the middle of the surrounding boutiques, to roll out the rugs to display to potential buyers. To get here head north on Rue Semarine, and just after the Souk el Attarine branches off left, take the next right turn off the street (which is now more properly named Rue Souk el-Kebir—the Big Souk Street). The carpet souk can also be reached from a passage in Rahba Qdima's northeast corner (to the right of Le Café des Épices).
Marrakesh, Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco
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Medina
Some of the trendiest riads serve guests using the beldi (traditional) pottery with modern designs that are the hallmark of Chabi Chic. Product lines include serving ware, tea sets, and coasters as well as spices, carpets, and beauty products. They also have a store in the Sidi Ghanem Industrial zone in the Marrakesh outskirts.
1, Derb Aarjane, Marrakesh, Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco
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Bab Doukkala
It may be a bit touristy, but this is a great way to see all the wares of the souk in one hassle-free space. Many of the goods here display fixed prices (which are high) for handicrafts including babouches, embroidery, lanterns, bags, jewelry, carpets, and paintings. You can see baskets being woven, carpets on the loom, and other artisans at work. There's even a snack bar.
If you enjoy bargaining, take a note of prices here and then aim to pay around 25% less in the souks.
Av. Mohammed V, Marrakesh, Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco
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Medina
This shop is renowned for its range of books on Berber life and culture. The little café littéraire up the stairs immediately to the left of the bookstore also has a small selection of books, though not the same owner.
Marrakesh, Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco
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Medina
At this small gallery, owners Dominique and Mohammed aim to create awareness of lesser-known Moroccan painters. There's a variety of styles, sizes, and prices from small watercolors to larger oil paintings and sculptural pieces. Credit cards are accepted.
129, rue Dar el Bacha, Marrakesh, Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco
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The aesthetic is Japan-meets-Morocco at this boutique that stocks uniquely patterned clothing for men and women. Shop off the rack or, if you have a few days, have a one-of-a-kind piece made to fit.
19, rte. Sidi Abdelaziz, Marrakesh, Marrakesh-Safi, 40000, Morocco
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Medina
At the northeastern edges of the souk (just beyond the northern end of the main Rue Souk el Kebir) are the leatherworkers—busy cutting out templates for those leather slippers called babouches, hammering and polishing, and making up bags and satchels from several types of animal skins. Look for signs to the Souk des Sachochiers (bag makers), Souk Chairia, and Souk Cherratine, all leather-working areas. The tanneries, where the raw hides have been prepared and dyed, are some 20 minutes' walk farther northeast from Souk Cherratine along Rue Bab Debbagh. Also in the northeast are a range of shops selling instruments, especially drums (Souk Moulay aii) and woven baskets (Souk Serrajine).
Marrakesh, Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco
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Medina
Here you'll find a good selection of guidebooks, maps, cookbooks, art books, novels, and postcards.
2, rue Dar el Bacha, Marrakesh, Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco
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Medina
This shop just off Place Djemâa el Fna has a range of guidebooks, cookbooks, novels by Moroccan authors, and maps. Most publications are in French.
51, rue Bab Aganou (also known as Av. Prince Moulay Rachid), Marrakesh, Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco
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