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Highlights
- Connect with Cooperative Mafrika women in Sidi Youssef as they share embroidery traditions from their own lives and welcome you into their workspace.
- Begin a 2-hour group session with an introduction from your expert guide, then practice first stitches together before working on your own hoop.
- All fabrics, threads, and needles are provided, then you share a meal with water or tea and leave with the piece you completed and a photo memento.
- Spend the rest of the workshop in a hands-on rhythm as you explore different traditional embroidery methods and watch your designs slowly take shape.
Your Experience
Join a 2-hour traditional embroidery workshop in Sidi Youssef with Cooperative Mafrika in a standard group format.
Getting started
Arrive at Cooperative Mafrika in Sidi Youssef and check in for your standard 2-hour traditional group workshop. You meet your expert guide, who explains the plan for the session and introduces the different traditional embroidery methods you will try. Once the outline is clear, you are shown to your workspace and given your fabric, threads, needles, and other materials.
What to expect
Cooperative Mafrika, Sidi Youssef
This 2-hour hands-on workshop is hosted by Cooperative Mafrika in Sidi Youssef and focuses on learning embroidery through different traditional methods alongside the women of a local cooperative.
Features
- Instruction focuses on learning embroidery with different traditional methods, so you can practice stitches and patterns step by step during the 2-hour traditional embroidery workshop.
- All fabric, threads, needles, and materials are provided, which means you can start embroidering immediately without bringing anything from home.
- A professional, expert guide leads the standard 2-hour traditional group workshop format, helping you follow each technique and answering questions as you work alongside the cooperative members.
- The embroidered piece you create is yours to keep, and you leave with an embroidered piece to take home as a personal reminder of your time in Sidi Youssef.
- A meal with water or tea is included during the session, giving you a short break from stitching to enjoy your meal with water or tea at the cooperative.
- Before you go, you receive a photo souvenir so you have a visual memory of your workshop experience in addition to the piece you embroidered.
Inclusions & Exclusions
- 2-hour traditional embroidery workshop
- Expert guide
- All fabric, threads, needles and materials
- Meal with water or tea
- Embroidered piece to take home
- Photo souvenir
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Additional food and drinks not specified as part of the workshop
- Gratuities
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Ticket Delivery
- Your voucher will be emailed to you shortly.
- Display the voucher on your mobile phone with a valid photo ID at the starting point.
- Please check your final voucher for the starting point details & specific instructions.
Cancellation Policy
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts.
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