Moroccan Spoon Carving in Marrakech

While visiting Marrakech in 2016 we found the spoon carvers in the mountains. They work in teams of two to carve up to 120 traditional Moroccan spoons a day. One of the carvers showed us how they rough out the spoon blanks in the morning, before spending the afternoon finishing off. One carver finishes the outside of the spoon with a small adze, while another finishes the inside of the bowl with a curved knife. The spoons are then transported into the city where they are rasped smooth and sold to tourists as souvenirs, or to the locals for harira, a traditional soup eaten to break fast at Ramadan. See pictures of the finished spoons and the tools used here -