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Berbernest

The Winter Blanket

Beni Ourain, Middle Atlas · Manner of the mid-twentieth century · Middle Atlas

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Original Berbernest composition

black with a mount · Middle Atlas · Manner of the mid-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 Winter Blanket

About this composition

Undyed wool, a charcoal diamond lattice, and a pile deep enough to sleep under — because that is what it was for. Beni Ourain rugs were winter bedding long before a Paris dealer put one under an Eames chair. The lattice is not decoration: the diamond is a protective sign, and the irregularities are where a weaver corrected herself and carried on.

Undyed cream, charcoal diamond

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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