The Carpets
Amazigh weaving, almost all of it by women, almost none of it signed. A Beni Ourain is a winter blanket from the Middle Atlas before it is a design object; a Boucherouite is made of rags because there was no wool. The vocabulary of diamonds, combs and lines is a written language that outsiders read as decoration.
This comes from a craft people still practise. It is nobody's private property and it is not nobody's work either: it was made, over centuries, mostly by women whose names were never written down. We say so rather than call it anonymous.
The Winter Blanket
Beni Ourain, Middle Atlas · Manner of the mid-twentieth century
From €59
The Courtyard Rug
Azilal, High Atlas · Manner of the twentieth century
From €59
The Rosewater Weave
Boujad, Middle Atlas plain · Manner of the twentieth century
From €59
The Rag Rug
Boucherouite · Manner of the late twentieth century
From €59