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Art & Crafts
The usual arts and crafts hierarchy is reversed in Morocco, where the craft tradition
is ancient and revered, while visual art is a more recent development. Ornament is
meant to be spiritually uplifting, while nonfunctional objects and representational im-
ages have traditionally been viewed as pointless - or worse, vanity verging on idolatry.
While Morocco's contemporary visual-arts scene remains small, its many beautiful
crafts - from carpets and leather to pottery and metalwork - make the quintessential
souvenir of any trip.
