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Berbernest

The Rag Rug

Boucherouite · Manner of the late twentieth century · Middle Atlas

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Original Berbernest composition

black with a mount · Middle Atlas · Manner of the late 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 Rag Rug

About this composition

When there was no wool the women wove with rags — cut-up clothing, nylon, plastic twine, whatever the house could spare. Boucherouite is the poorest Moroccan textile and by a distance the most inventive: violent pink against acid green, no symmetry, no plan, completely alive. It is also the reason the collage collection next door exists.

Everything that was in the house

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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