2024-05-15 14:03:03
All the time requiring confirmed know-how and imperturbable dealing with, the saddle is available in a number of types, relying on its use. There are saddles meant for the artwork of tbourida, saddles for present leaping in addition to racing saddles. Others are devoted to fight and to the companies of nationwide safety and the Royal Gendarmerie.
Thought-about among the many most ancestral craft actions in Morocco, conventional saddlery varies relying on the kind of use.
On this regard, Mohamed Zarrouk, grasp saddler from Fez, specializing within the manufacture of leaping saddles, signifies in an announcement to MAP that many parts used within the manufacture of saddles can be found domestically, apart from sure iron and aluminum components, such because the harness or the “Fez”, that are imported from overseas.
Mr. Zarrouk begins by buying uncooked supplies that he needs to organize himself, notably domestically produced leather-based, with the intention to manufacture his specialty: saddles for present leaping, but additionally leather-based sneakers and clothes for rider, amongst others, he explains to us.
In an analogous assertion, Hicham Sekkat, grasp saddler specializing within the manufacture of saddles for the Tbourida, and who presents himself because the custodian of an artwork handed down from father to son, emphasizes that he makes use of a number of supplies to make saddles: wooden, leather-based, embroidery, golden threads… He specifies that the saddle is made up of 42 components and that 17 trades come collectively to offer the completely different supplies that go into its manufacture.
In response to Mr. Sekkat, it takes plenty of time to make a single piece, particularly if it is a high-quality saddle. As for the value of the saddle, it begins from 3000 dirhams and might go nicely past relying on the standard of the supplies used.
Notice that a number of supplies come into play within the making of ancestral Moroccan saddles that the initiates of Tbourida take care to perpetuate: for instance the “Jharkhand” cloth (silk from India), identified amongst Moroccans below the title ” brocade”, which is woven by hand and never industrially.
The 14th version of the Horse Present (October 17-22), which is held on the Mohammed VI Exhibition Middle in El Jadida below the Excessive Patronage of HM King Mohammed VI, is below the theme: “The horse and growth sustainable”. This occasion has change into an unmissable occasion for selling the equine business and selling the function of the horse on a cultural and civilizational stage.
2024-05-15 14:03:03