Dyed leather hides drying in street in the souk, Medina, Marrakech, Morocco, North Africa, Africa

Tanned hides, drying on the hill El Kolla, Fes, Morocco

SRL leather processing factory. Considered the best leather processing factory for quality and innovation in the world. Employs 2500 people. Processes untreated hides through to finished tanned and treated hides ready to be purchased by manufacturers of clothing, footwear, automative industry. The huge drums pictured in background of photo contain leather hides being processed and softed, in the foreground workers seen "splicing" or cutting in half the thickness of treated hide.

Fes Morocco Tannery section of the medina Hides are tanned and hand dyed