Our Story

Single-use plastic is endemic here — carried home from almost every market trip, starting with the morning bread. At the same time, waste fabric like discarded denim and cotton goes unused.

SamZar exists to connect the two. From our small circular craft studio in the Fez medina — Dar Al-Hiraf — we turn textile waste into things people actually use: bags for the daily shop, sacs for spices and seeds, pieces that carry a little of the city in their stitching, like the djellaba hood we fold into our designs.

Waste becomes inventory. Skill becomes income and impact.

Everything is made by hand, in small batches, by local makers who are paid for every piece. There's no mass production, no plastic fibre, no shortcut that costs the environment later. A reused bag that lasts for years quietly replaces hundreds of plastic ones — and the work of making it stays in the community that made it.

We also teach. Short, hands-on films pass practical reuse and repair techniques between makers, keeping quality consistent and skills alive. And we work with the shops, riads and cafés of the medina to cut the plastic that moves through them every day — small changes that add up.

We're a small operation with a simple belief: reducing waste and supporting craft aren't separate goals. Do one properly and you're doing the other. Our work starts in Fez, and stays rooted here — a practical answer to a problem you can see on any medina street.