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Souk Sabbaghine

The dyers' souk - سوق الصباغين

Souk Sabbaghine (Souk des Teinturiers) is the dyers’ souk. It’s the most picturesque and photogenic of the souks, especially when the dyers leave multicoloured hanks of wool and cotton fabrics hanging up to dry all over the place.

If you’re lucky, especially in the morning and first thing after lunch, you may catch some of the dyers acrtually at work, churning their cloth and yarn in cauldrons of hot dye before draining it off and hanging it our to dry.

At one time only natural colours were used, such as cochineal, indigo and henna, but synthetic dyes have long since taken over, and have the advantage of coming in a far greater variety of colours.

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The Souks Sights

Images by Daniel Jacobs, Fulvio Spada