Located in the heart of the medina of Fez, the brassware is part of the heritage of the Idrisside city. It is the emblem of the craft knowledge of the city of Fes.
Dinandier means the knowledge and techniques of working the metal to achieve decorative objects functional or useful. The coppersmiths of Fes carry out their activities in a dozen districts reserved for the craft: more than 1,200 workshops and a hundred Fondouks which are workshops organized around a central courtyard. The Seffarine square is reputed to be the place of brassware par excellence.
These talented craftsmen are true masters of metals and are known by the sounds they make when hammering: a technique performed on pieces of copper, tin, tinplate or brass to give them a shape, then comes the chiselling which is the art of cutting the metal and giving it a pattern.
The lights are the most renowned and proposed in all their splendor for all occasions and also in different finishes: In copper, bronze, brass (alloy of copper and zinc), burnished brass and aged copper for the exteriors, burnished and polished brass with paint, metal in colored or raw chased copper inlaid with blown glass, sandblasted or in colors coming from recycling of scraps that are also painted, the IRAKI glass famous for its colors, chased and cut in patterns and which gives reflections in multicolored plays of lights .
All a knowledge to make which transforms the metal into beauty.
In order to preserve this cultural wealth, the project “Crafts and Medina of Fez” MCA-Morocco financed by Millennium Challenge Corporation will allow to revive the soul of the old medina and to give it a new lease of life especially to these craftsmen the best conditions to develop and maintain this ancestral art.
