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Fez has a tannery running since medieval times
The Chouara tannery in Morocco still dyes leather in stone vats using methods largely unchanged for around a thousand years, with pigeon droppings and lime softening the hides.
Craft
Molten glass is worked at 1,100°C
Glassblowers gather glass at furnace temperatures above 1,100°C, where it flows like honey. The pipe must keep spinning — stop, and gravity pulls the piece out of shape.