Category Archives: Flat weaves and Hanbel

Here is another bucharuit hanbel, made of flatwoven pieces of rag. The design is madde of a succession of stripes of triangles, in between stripes of fine lines.  The triangle…

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This hanbel is made of bucharuit, the word for rag in dialectal moroccan language. This practice, that emerged probably in the mid 20th century but was identified and valued not…

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This hanbel, or kilim, has been woven in west-southern Morocco using traditionnal techniques of the Sirwa mountains. The design is simple, mixing white and yellow lines in large concentrical losanges…

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Here  is a superb Aït Wauzguit hanbel, this tribe settled in Jbel Sirwa, south of The High Atlas, south of Marrakech. The weaving is dual, with wide spreads of flat…

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