We offer you some amazing crafted artifacts built in cedar wood with characteristic scent and often worked with lemon. This type of art appeared at the beginning of the XIXth century in Morocco, and the sultans appealed to the artisans for the manufacture of decorative objects, furniture or musical instruments...
It does consist in sticking a mosaic of precious wood on a carpentry background, where are encrusted debris of shells like mother-of-pearl, or filaments of silver metal. It is also decorated with floral ornaments or geometric figures. In the Marrakech medina, the artisanal creation with cedar wood is available in many forms: boxes, jewelry boxes, games, tables, pots…
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