black with a mount · Azilal · Manner of the twentieth century
The Courtyard Rug
Azilal, High Atlas · Manner of the twentieth century · Azilal
- Giclée on 200gsm archival matte, pigment inks
- Printed to order in Europe and posted to you
- Framing is optional, and framed prints arrive ready to hang
About this piece
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
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.
