This craft produces mainly large decorative wall hangings but also rugs and pieces of furniture.

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Blankets, wall hangings, handbags, table runners, alpaca-wool sweaters and scarves beam as brightly as the equatorial sun, lighting up the largest and finest craft market in South America.

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The main exhibits are the surprisingly large textile wall hangings, most of them vivacious painted cottons, although some are embroidered and block-printed or woven silk brocade.

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Mrs Hunt said she hoped her exhibition - which features about 200 pieces including jewellery, wall hangings and a life-sized elephant's head - would inspire people to "give rubbish a second chance".

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Favorites are a recently acquired set of 17th-century Dutch silvered, painted and varnished leather wall hangings, shown with Pieter de Hooch's painting "Leisure Time in an Elegant Setting" (c. 1663-65) in which similar coverings appear.

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Best buys are babouches (traditional leather slippers), silver Berber jewellery, the famous blue-glazed Fassi ceramics, hand-sewn linen and cotton embroidery, Berber hendiras (traditional woven cloaks that make great wall hangings), argan oil (for cooking or in soap), saffron and other spices, brassware, and carpets of every type, style and quality.

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