Cumulated traditions, manual dexterity and creative intelligence are based and merged in the product of the craft industry. Impregnated cultural values and additions civilisationnels some, the product artisanal utility or decorative, traditional or modern, has a presence noticed in the lived daily one. The matters, the techniques and the shapes of the product of the craft industry always were re-examined and reactualized by creative craftsmen of the time, thus enabling him to preserve the place which was his in the architecture of interior, decoration, furnishing, the domestic accessories like in the fields of the ornament. Out of animal or vegetable fibres, out of wood, metal, clay or stone, the product of the craft industry always adapted to motivations and needs cultural and usual which define its real function and its true value. The multiplicity and the importance of the needs for the man justify the diversity and the abundance of the products of the craft industry offered in the souks made up of hanuts all similar and stalls laid out in the same way. The souks of the cities and Moroccan villages are known all over the world by their febrility, their environment and the animation which always reigned there. Today, still, that which traverses the souks through the lanes of the Moroccan médinas tests the desire to penetrate in a world imaginary and dream, known through the chronicles for its noises, its odors and its colors, and to be with the conjunction of the past, the present and the future. The Moroccan craft industry thus cut through a path between tradition and modernity under the impulse of the action of the state which preserved, renovated and developed a creative craft industry.
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