Wholesale only · Made in Morocco

Five Moroccan crafts, one export contact.

Hand-hammered copper and brass, vegetable-tanned leather, hand-cut zellige fassi, wool rugs knotted in the Atlas, and argan cosmetics. We supply design retailers, interior architects and importers across Europe, the United States and the Gulf — one point of contact, and compliant paperwork with every shipment.

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Provisional Photo Hero shot — a hammered tray, a lantern and a leather pouf styled together on a matte neutral background. Portrait, min. 900 × 1200 px. Copper reflects everything: use diffused light, never a bare flash, or it reads as gold-coloured plastic.
ProvisionalPhoto A portrait of you, Nakil — in a workshop, not in an office. Natural light, no suit. Buyers trust a face. Portrait format, min. 900 × 1200 px.

A founder photo raises enquiry rates more than any other single image on a B2B site. Worth one hour with the photographer who shoots your products.

Our story

Some trades are handed down as a skill. This one was handed down as unfinished work.

I am Nakil Youssef. I was born in Marrakech, the ochre city, and I am twenty-six years old. Maalem Craft is an inheritance I received unfinished, and decided to finish.

Craft was my grandfather's trade. He made sacoches marrakchi — the hand-stitched leather satchels this city has turned out for generations. It fed a family. It did not build one beyond that, and it did not travel further than the people who walked into his workshop.

What reached me was not the skill. I never learned to cut and stitch a hide and I will not pretend otherwise. What reached me was the unfinished part: work of that quality made here, sold for very little, and going no further.

Marrakech and Fes hold some of the finest metalwork and leatherwork in the world, and almost none of it reaches the shops that would price it properly. That is the gap. Closing it is the whole of our work.

The reason it stays open is not talent and it is not transport. A maalem — a master craftsman — can make a piece that belongs in any interior on earth. What he rarely has is someone who speaks the language of the buyer at the other end: a declared weight, a stated tolerance, a lead time that holds, a document that satisfies a customs officer in Rotterdam and a compliance officer in Amsterdam.

So Maalem Craft is not a shop and not a marketplace. It is the commercial layer that was missing — one point of contact, prices published, weights declared, paperwork complete before you ask for it. We sell to trade only: retailers, interior architects, hospitality projects and importers, in Europe, the United States and the Gulf.

Being twenty-six in this business is unusual and I treat it as the advantage it is. I have no thirty-year habit of doing things opaquely. I would rather publish a minimum order, a copper revision clause and an American surcharge on my own website than have a buyer discover them after the invoice.

What I want to build is deliberately unglamorous: a house a buyer in Antwerp or Chicago can order from twice a year without thinking about it, where the workshops in Fes and Marrakech are paid properly and on time for work that lasts. Finish that, and the trade my grandfather practised is not a memory. It is simply a trade that took a generation to find its market.

Nakil Youssef Founder · Casablanca and Marrakech

The workshops

Five crafts, three regions, and a way of working that predates us all.

We do not own workshops. We work with them — the family ateliers of Fes, Marrakech and the Souss valley, where the same techniques have been passed from father to son and mother to daughter for longer than any company has existed.

ProvisionalPhoto A coppersmith mid-hammer. The tools and the hands, not the face if permission is unclear. Square, min. 900 px.

Fes · Dinanderie

Copper and brass

The coppersmiths' quarter of Fes has worked sheet metal by hand for centuries — the square is named for the trade. A tray is raised, hammered, planished and tinned by hand, with no press and no mould. It is why no two hammer patterns match, and why the surface catches light the way pressed metal never does.

ProvisionalPhoto Zellige cutting, or a rug on the loom. Square, min. 900 px.

Fes & the Atlas · Zellige and rugs

Zellige and wool

Zellige fassi is enamelled terracotta fired twice, then split by hand with a cutting hammer — no template, no measuring. In the Middle Atlas, undyed highland wool is knotted on vertical looms by women who learned the patterns before they could read them. Neither trade can be hurried, and neither can be machine-made.

ProvisionalPhoto A tannery or a cutting bench — hides, or hands stitching. Square, min. 900 px.

Fes & Souss · Leather and argan

Leather and cosmetics

Fes tans hides with vegetable matter in pits that have been in use since the eleventh century, and the city's leatherworkers cut and stitch by hand. Further south, in the Souss valley, women's cooperatives press argan and prickly pear the slow way. Different trades, same principle: time is the ingredient.

What we do and do not claim. We are a young house, and we are building these relationships rather than inheriting them. So we will not print a list of partner workshops we have worked with for decades, because that would not be true. What we will tell you, on any reference you ask about, is which workshop made it, in which city, and whether we have held a reference piece long enough to guarantee the next batch matches. Ask us. If the honest answer is "this is a new supplier and we are still proving them", you will get that answer.

How we work with a workshop

  • A physical reference piece stays with us, and every batch is checked against it
  • Weight and sheet gauge declared with a tolerance, and each batch weighed before packing
  • Two workshops for every key reference, so one holiday or one illness does not miss your date
  • Paid on agreed terms — a workshop under cash pressure cuts corners, and you receive them
  • Buyers placing repeat orders are welcome to come and see for themselves

Why buyers work with us

The same weight, the same gauge, the same finish — six months from now.

Handmade does not have to mean unpredictable. Every reference is produced by a named workshop we visit monthly, against a physical reference piece we hold. Sheet thickness and finished weight are declared with a tolerance — not discovered when the pallet arrives.

  • Solid copper and brass, sheet gauge declared in millimetres on every product sheet
  • Finished weight declared with a ±7 % tolerance, and every batch weighed before dispatch
  • Food-contact pieces fully tinned inside, with a written compliance declaration
  • Leather tested to EN ISO 17075 for chromium VI, under the REACH 3 mg/kg limit
  • EUR.1 certificate of origin with every EU shipment — 0 % duty
  • Named workshops, monthly quality visits, reference pieces held on file
Provisional Photo Workshop in action — a coppersmith mid-hammer, or the tinning of a tray interior. Landscape, min. 1400 px wide.

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See the hammering

A photograph cannot show you weight. Rotation can.

Hand-hammered copper reads flat in a still image. Turn the piece and the light travels across every hammer mark — which is exactly the difference between our work and machine-pressed or plated copper sold as solid.

This is why we send samples, and why we film every reference in the round. If you are comparing us against a cheaper quote, rotate the piece and compare the surface.

Turntable shoot: 24 frames per reference, fixed camera, fixed diffused light, matte neutral background. Budget one hour per reference.

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Tell us what you need. We reply within one working day.

Seven fields. No account, no login, no newsletter. You will receive the full price list and a straight answer on lead time and freight to your address.

  • Full line sheet with trade prices and RRP guidance
  • Freight quote to your delivery address
  • Honest lead times — including when we are full
  • Sample pack offer if you are a good fit

Working on a project? Interior architects and hospitality specifiers: send your drawings and quantities. We quote custom lighting and metalwork from plans, and we will tell you early if a deadline is not achievable.

Thank you — your request has been sent. We reply within one working day, Monday to Friday.

The fastest way for us to see whether our range suits your store or project.

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Collection six · Rugs

Rugs — and the one promise we cannot make about them.

Hand-knotted wool from the Middle and High Atlas. Rugs are the second largest Moroccan craft export after pottery, and the single most requested item by the interior architects we talk to. They are also the one line where we cannot promise you an identical second piece — so we sell them differently, and we say so before you order.

ProvisionalPhoto Beni Ouarain flat on a concrete floor, shot from above. Square, min. 1200 px.

Middle Atlas

Beni Ouarain

Undyed ivory wool, charcoal lozenge pattern, deep pile. The one everyone asks for. Woven by Berber women on vertical looms, 3 to 6 weeks per piece.

  • Live wool, unbleached, lanolin retained
  • Common sizes 200×300, 250×350, 300×400 cm
  • Weight 12–28 kg depending on size
Per pieceTrade €240–780
ProvisionalPhoto Azilal rug detail — the colour and the irregular drawing. Square, min. 1200 px.

High Atlas

Azilal

Single-knot wool on a lighter ground, drawn freehand in vegetable and aniline dyes. No two are alike, which is precisely why designers specify them.

  • Finer pile than Beni Ouarain, lighter weight
  • Common sizes 150×250, 200×300 cm
  • Dye lot stated on the invoice
Per pieceTrade €190–540
ProvisionalPhoto Kilim flatweave, folded to show both faces. Square, min. 1200 px.

Plains & Rif

Kilim & hanbel

Flatweave, no pile, reversible. Lighter to ship and far cheaper to freight than a knotted rug — the practical entry into the category for a shop.

  • Wool, or wool and cotton mix
  • Common sizes 120×180 to 200×300 cm
  • Weight 4–9 kg
Per pieceTrade €95–290

How we sell rugs, and why it is different. Every other reference in this catalogue is reorderable: same weight, same gauge, same finish, six months from now. A hand-knotted rug is not. Each one is a single piece, and the woman who made it will never make exactly the same one again.

So we do not list rugs by reference. We photograph each piece individually, front and back, with its true measurements and weight, and we send you a current selection with a hold of seven days. What you see is what ships. If you need twelve matching rugs for a hotel, say so at the start — that is a commissioned production of 10 to 16 weeks, not a stock order, and it is priced differently.

Labelling and freight. Rugs entering the EU need a fibre composition label under the textile labelling regulation — we supply it, stating wool percentage and origin. Freight is by weight and volume: a 300×400 Beni Ouarain rolled is bulky, so we consolidate rugs with copper on the same pallet whenever the timing allows, which usually halves the cost per piece.

Collection seven · Wall panels

Wall panels — made from the same three materials, framed.

Not paintings. Framed panels made from what we already work: cut zellige, hammered copper and tooled leather, mounted on a hardwood frame with a concealed hanging rail. Made to order, in any size, and repeatable — which paintings are not.

ProvisionalPhoto Framed zellige panel on a plaster wall, raking light. Square, min. 1200 px.

3 formats

Zellige panel

Hand-cut zellige laid in a traditional pattern on a rigid backing, walnut frame. The only way to put zellige on a wall without a tiler.

  • 40×40, 60×60, 80×120 cm
  • Any of the traditional colours
  • 9–34 kg — wall fixings supplied
MOQ 2Trade €120–460
ProvisionalPhoto Hammered copper relief panel, light raking across the surface. Square, min. 1200 px.

3 formats

Copper relief

A single sheet of copper, raised and chased by hand into a geometric relief, framed or left as a floating panel. Patinated, polished or blackened.

  • 50×50, 60×90, 90×120 cm
  • 1.2 mm sheet, mounted on hardwood
  • Custom motifs from 6 pieces
MOQ 2Trade €150–520
ProvisionalPhoto Tooled leather panel, close enough to read the stamping. Square, min. 1200 px.

2 formats

Tooled leather

Vegetable-tanned hide, hand-tooled with the same stamps used on saddlery, stretched on a frame. Develops a patina exactly like the bags.

  • 50×70, 70×100 cm
  • Natural, tobacco or oxblood
  • Lightest of the three — easy freight
MOQ 2Trade €110–330

Why panels and not art. We were asked for paintings. We are not going to sell you paintings, because buying original work from artists is a different trade with a different supply chain, and we would be a middleman adding nothing. What we can do is make wall pieces from the materials our workshops already master — and unlike a painting, we can make you eleven more of them for a hotel corridor, to the same specification.

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