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rhiannon1968
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the little souk

  • January 21, 2002
  • Rated 3 of 5 by rhiannon1968 from locarno, Switzerland
the little souk

A little souk - very little - but charming in any case. The main merchandise seemed to be the carpets... not as precious or refined as the famous ones of Kairouan - but Berber carpets - woven in thick wool - with traditional geometric designs. The choice - although limited - offered something for every taste: natural coloured carpets, or more cheerfully coloured ones: I ended up buying a little cream and green one - handmade - for a really cheap price, or so it seemed to me.
I bargained like crazy - thought I had made an excellent deal (30$) - but the salesperson must have thought differently since he would not let me leave and kept giving me things for free: handpainted plates, a stuffed camel, plenty of postcards.
Plates and vases are the next thing to buy here: they are not much different than all the other places I have been to, but they were surely much cheaper, and of the same quality. Here too the designs range from the traditional ones (inspired by the decorations on the typical Tunisian ceramics) to the Berber ones. You can distinguish them by the colours used - traditional normally use dark blue as their main colour - Berber have brighter tones and employ a wider palette of hues.

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