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Berbernest

The Rosewater Weave

Boujad, Middle Atlas plain · Manner of the twentieth century · Boujad

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Original Berbernest composition

black with a mount · Boujad · 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 Rosewater Weave

About this composition

Boujad rugs are pink, and not a shy pink: madder and cochineal pushed until the ground glows. The drawing over the top is abstract and asymmetric in a way that reads as sophisticated now and was simply how the weaver worked that week.

Madder pink, ivory, ink

A living tradition

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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.

A contemporary Berbernest composition. Save it to revisit while prints are unavailable.