Category Archives: Hanbel

Saddle rug from the Aït Wauzguit people in the jbel Sirwa, south of Marrakech . This piece of weaving was sewed to the mule saddle. Period : ca 1970 –…

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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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ourika hanbel

This hanbel originates above the Ourika valley, south of Marrakech, in western Hign Atlas. It is woven using wools of natural colors, but for those dyed red. It originally is…

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This hanbel comes from the Demnat area, east of Marrakech, according to the person who collected it in the field. Although there is no documentation to sustain this saying, the…

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