Learn directly from the person who made it.
Two tracks. Digital courses you take at your own pace. Travel apprenticeships where you go to the workshop and work.
Video lessons, self-paced. 80% of the course fee goes to the artisan. 20% to Amussu for hosting and platform costs.
Go to the workshop. Work alongside the artisan for days or weeks. 70% to the artisan or cooperative. 30% to Amussu for logistics coordination.
Learn at your own pace.
80% to the artisan
20% to Amussu
- Wool weaving — Middle Atlas rugsDigital
How to read a Middle Atlas rug
A digital course for people who want to understand what they are looking at when they look at a handwoven rug. I will teach you the difference between a genuine Middle Atlas piece and a factory copy, how to read the pattern vocabulary, and what the knot density and pile tell you about how the rug was made. You will not be able to weave a rug after this course. You will be able to understand one.
6 lessons · 3h total
£4580% to FatimaFatima Ait Ali · Aït Hadiddou, Middle Atlas - Leatherwork — bags and beltsDigital
Saddle stitching for the first time
A practical digital course on the hand-stitching technique used in quality leatherwork. I will show you everything I show a new apprentice in the first month: how to mark and pierce the stitch line, how to thread and lock the saddle stitch, and how to finish edges so they last. You can follow along with any leather — I will tell you what tools to get and what you do not need to spend money on.
5 lessons · 2h total
£3880% to NourNour Benkirane · Medina, Fez - Tatreez — Palestinian cross-stitchDigital
Tatreez for beginners — the base cross-stitch and first border
A digital course for people starting tatreez from nothing. I will teach you the base cross-stitch correctly — direction, tension, and how the back should look. Then we will work a simple border pattern from the Ramallah region. By the end you will have stitched one complete border and understood the counting system that makes every other tatreez pattern accessible.
5 lessons · 2h total
£3280% to RaniaRania Barakat · Ramallah, West Bank - Kuba cloth — raffia cut-pile weavingDigital
Reading Kuba cloth — the names and meanings of the patterns
A digital course for people who want to understand Kuba cloth before commissioning it, or who have encountered it in a museum or collection and want to know what they are looking at. I will teach you the twenty patterns I consider foundational — their names in Tshiluba, their history in the Kuba Kingdom, and the rules about their use. This is not a weaving course. It is a literacy course.
6 lessons · 3h total
£4280% to CécileCécile Muamba · Kasai-Central - Nubian handwoven cottonDigital
Nubian colour and pattern — how to read a handwoven cloth
A digital introduction to Nubian weaving from Aswan. I will show you how the pattern is built entirely in the warp — the colour sequence is set before the first thread of weft is passed. I will explain what the stripe combinations mean, how to distinguish handwoven from machine-made, and what the displacement of 1964 did to the tradition and what survived.
5 lessons · 2h total
£3580% to MonaMona Hassan · Aswan, Upper Egypt
Go to the workshop.
70% to the artisan
30% to Amussu
- Wool weaving — Middle Atlas rugsTravel
Two weeks at the loom in Aït Hadiddou
A working apprenticeship. You will spend two weeks at my loom in the Aït Hadiddou valley. You will learn to warp, to tie knots, to dye with madder and walnut, and to read a pattern without a cartoon. You will not become a weaver in two weeks. You will understand what weaving takes. Most people who come say it changes how they see every piece of cloth they have ever owned.
14 days · Aït Hadiddou village, Middle Atlas, Morocco
1 slot left£185070% to FatimaFatima Ait Ali · Aït Hadiddou, Middle Atlas - Zellige and ceramic tileTravel
One week cutting tiles in Fez
A week in my workshop learning zellige cutting. This is not a course about zellige history or appreciation — it is about the hammer and the chisel. You will spend the week learning to cut the eight-pointed star correctly. That is the whole curriculum. If you can cut the star by the end of the week, you understand zellige. Most people cannot. That is the point.
6 days · Khalid's workshop, Medina, Fez, Morocco
2 slots left£140070% to KhalidKhalid El Fassi · Fez - Tatreez — Palestinian cross-stitchTravel
Four days of tatreez in Ramallah
Four days working with me and Lina, my apprentice, in Ramallah. You will work on a real piece — not a sample — using a pattern we will choose together before you arrive. You will leave with that piece, finished or nearly finished. The work is slow and the city is complicated. Both things are part of the experience.
4 days · Rania's workshop, Ramallah, West Bank
3 slots left£95070% to RaniaRania Barakat · Ramallah, West Bank - Nubian handwoven cottonTravel
Three days weaving in Aswan
Three days at my floor loom in Aswan. You will dress the loom together with me, choose the stripe sequence for a small piece, and weave it start to finish. On the third day we visit the Nubade cooperative and you see the full range of what the women there make. You leave with the piece you wove and a clear sense of what the tradition is.
3 days · Mona's workshop, Aswan, Upper Egypt
2 slots left£78070% to MonaMona Hassan · Aswan, Upper Egypt