Hassane EL Yakine was born in Taloust the berber village located near the town of Taznakhte. He was born and grew up in a family with very long weaving traditions. In the 1970s (when he was around 10 years) he used to go with his grandmother to the field to collect the right herbs (peels of pomegranate, madder roots, weld …etc) to dye wool yarns. Deeply influenced by the elegance of the Berber rug culture, he helped his mother and his sisters during the process of carpet weaving from dyeing the yarns and setting up the loom to knotting the rugs. He also helped his father in sewing the Djellaba cloth and the Berber Akhnif cape.

Over the last 30 years he worked with researchers and Berber rug collectors and contributed largely to the Berber textiles and culture in the Anti-Atlas region in Morocco.

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