Who are we?
This site results from the common work of Hassane Kabil, known as Sy Hassan, who imagined and created it, and Isabelle Riaboff, ethnologist, who is in charge of the information retrieval and the editorial content of the site.
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Sy Hassan has been studying the textile arts for more than 25 years. Although he worked as an apprentice since his childhood, he conducted long studies on his own. In the course of his extended research and work with the craftsmen of Fez, he gained a large number of skills and became an expert, master and artist in the textile field. Today, he masters the art of weaving from A to Z: from designing and constructing hand drawlooms to producing fabrics in particular lampases, not forgetting the drawing of new patterns, his favourite art expression. He is also fond of the history of handweaving on a worldwide scale.
Isabelle Riaboff, who is doctor in ethnology, is a specialist of the Tibetan-speaking populations of the Western Himalayas, where she carried out research for more than 15 years. Since 2005, following a valuation which she conducted in Fez for the UNESCO, in collaboration with the Ministère de l'Artisanat du Maroc, she has reorientated her research which now focuses on the Moroccan handweaving of figured fabrics.
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