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Berbernest

The Courtyard Rug

Azilal, High Atlas · Manner of the twentieth century · Azilal

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Original Berbernest composition

black with a mount · Azilal · Manner of the twentieth century

Prodigi Classic Black frame corner photograph

Black · actual frame finishProdigi’s product photograph. Flat 20 mm face, 22 mm depth, with a snow-white mount.

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A Marrakech salon
The Courtyard Rug

About this composition

Azilal weaving is the loose, bright, single-knot cousin of the Beni Ourain: a cream ground drawn on rather than filled in. Figures, combs, hands, sometimes a whole narrative running up the rug. Each one is one woman's composition and no two of them agree about anything.

Cream ground, saffron, madder

A living tradition

Read the cultural provenance

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.

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