SERVICE D’ARTISANAT D’AGADEZ

Set in two banco vaults in the Union of Cooperatives, before the prefecture on the left and now has a shop near the mosque where all the products made in the Tuareg camps are on sale. It contains mainly female handicraft harvested in the villages of the Aïr valleys near Agadez. These are vanneries in ouadi palms: baskets, table sets, baskets of different sizes, mats of floor and storage boxes, embroidery on basin tissue, executed by a few families, men and women from the Campement camp 20 km southwest of Agadez. These are nappes, cushions, backpacks and other items that can also be purchased by travelling directly to the village of Kerboubou on the old road of Ingall. Broderies are exposed in a small cooperative in the morning, you need to ask the camp people around if the seller is not around.

Craftsmen's jewellers are numerous throughout the city, and it is not uncommon for them to invite them to admire the work of money, jewelry, sabres and objects to decorate the table and sometimes gold (at Aghantey, near the bar Lallé Lallé). Blacksmiths: any artisan jeweller tuareg is the "caste" of blacksmiths or enaden, but among them one finds those specialized in the wood and especially in the fabrique of camel stools whose reinforcement is wood covered with leather and copper scales. They are often nomads, and many of them can be seen at work in an old Agadez house (not far from Degui Square) for several weeks, to see them disappear suddenly: They went into bush looking for the different wood needed to make delicate stools (the stools of the Hoggar and the Aïr are different).