Art Tissage Tamesloht Cooperative
Since 2009,
the thread has never broken
Born in Tamesloht to preserve the art of Moroccan weaving, the cooperative today brings together nearly 200 artisans around one same gesture — and one same duty.
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OUR STORY
Preserving what was about to disappear
Founded in 2009 in the heart of the historic region of Tamesloht, the cooperative was born of an urgent need: to protect a heritage that time threatened to erase. Traditional weaving and the art of the Moroccan rug, passed down from generation to generation, risked dying out for lack of successors and recognition.
Preserving this craft also meant preserving the people who carry it. The cooperative made it its mission to offer lasting employment opportunities — work that guarantees dignity and stability for the region's artisans, rather than precarity.
Saving a gesture means saving the people who keep it alive.
From this double commitment were born authentic Moroccan products, shaped by hand, with a standard of quality that honours the material as much as the hands that work it.
THE ECOSYSTEM
Three chapters, one common thread
From saving a craft to sharing it with the world, to the people who carry it: the ecosystem was built in three stages, each extending the previous one.
THE FOUNDERS
Heirs to an ancestral gesture
They did not invent this craft: they inherited it. Each represents the second or third generation of weavers in his family, with forty to fifty years at the loom. Together, they chose to save a craft that time was erasing, and to turn it into a cooperative.
OUR THREE WORLDS
Three houses, one same hand
One same craft, expressed in three complementary commitments: textile creation, the art of living, and the human bond that ties it all together.
01Arttissage Tam
Rugs and pieces hand-woven in the Amazigh tradition.
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02Tigmi Tam
Objects and decor for the home, the Moroccan art of living.
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03Nour Association
Training, literacy, health: the human side of the ecosystem.
Discover →Tamesloht,
land of weavers
Our cooperative was not born of an abstract idea. It was born of a place: Tamesloht, a historic region of Moroccan weaving, where this craft took root and is passed down from generation to generation.
It is here, in 2009, that everything began. And it is here that everything is still made, by hand, to this day. Under one roof stand the weaving, sewing, embroidery, pottery and joinery workshops, and our recycling workshop — each gesture nourishing the others.
At the heart of this place, the Riad: both a showroom and a living house, where the pieces catch the light of the earthen walls that saw them born.
- Weaving
- Sewing
- Embroidery
- Pottery
- Joinery
- Recycling
Here,
nothing goes to waste
The cooperative houses an independent workshop dedicated to upcycling. All thread and fabric offcuts from the sewing and rug workshops are sorted there and given new value.
What others would throw away becomes raw material here: every offcut is turned into new artistic pieces, shaped by hand. It is our way of combining the standards of luxury craftsmanship with concrete environmental responsibility — not displayed, but practised, gesture after gesture.
“Every thread counts. Even the ones we thought were lost.”
Preserving a craft,
honouring the women and men who carry it,
and raising the name of Morocco.
A noble mission, a national duty: craftsmanship that combines luxury with environmental responsibility.
— The Art Tissage Tamesloht Cooperative
Let's write the next chapter,
together
Whether you are an individual charmed by a piece, a professional — decorator, hotel, boutique — looking for an artisan partner, or an institution wishing to support our artisans, our door is open. Made-to-measure, collaborations, patronage: let's talk.
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