The zelliges are squares of terra cotta, enamelled or not, or excized which decorate since X eme century, mosque, palate, hamams of Morocco
This technique transmitted from generation to generation comprised at the beginning of its use only the colors which conferred to him the natural ground, clay coming from Fez only.
This art, opens out little by little to introduce there colors such as the yellow, blue and the green at the XIV centuries and the red starting from the XVII eme.
If the colors were packed with a nuancier very varied, resulting from cooking, the manufacturing method remains manual and unchanged.
Traditionally each ground square is moulded, coloured or left in its natural colour cut in a single way, thanks to a drifter and edge, to be then cooked in a furnace fed two days whole and or the zelliges will remain then until cooling.