A Father, a Son, and a Thousand-Year-Old Art That Is Almost Gone
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A Father, a Son, and a Thousand-Year-Old Art That Is Almost Gone
In a workshop in Fes, Morocco, a 52-year-old master leatherworker sits at a bench beside his son, who is 25. Today’s lesson is a fold: how to turn the edge of a piece of leather back over itself so cleanly that the edge shows nothing but unbroken grain. But what the father is passing on is much larger than one movement. It is a complete school of high leathercraft, built in this city across roughly a thousand years and known in French as haute m…
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