Large red Mrirt arpet – U0805 – SOLD
This a very nice large red Mrirt carpet with a plain field. Woven in center north Middle Atlas of Morocco. The abrashed field exemplifies a domestic wool dyeing. The wool…
Saddle rug – Aït Wauzguit – Z0209
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 –…
Ourika carpet – X0109 – SOLD
This carpet originates in the mountains above the Ourika valley, south of Marrakech – The losangic grid system is a practice common to most moroccan berber tribes . Period: ca…
Bucharuit hanbel – T1003 – SOLD
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…
Bucharuit hanbel with multicolored hexagones – T1004 – SOLD
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…
Aït Wauzguit blue runner carpet – SOLD
This is what we usually call a runner carpet, but actually a quite unusual Aït Wauzguit tribal carpet because of its width – 60 cm/ 24″. With this origin, and…
Blue and gold sirwa carpet – R0406 – SOLD
Here a sirwa carpet mixing berber and oriental elements. Where the colors are definitely part of the local practices, the origins of the constituting parts vary: the blue abrashed field…
Aït Wauzguit runner carpet – R0111
This is a fairly typical wauzguit carpet re the period it belongs to, the 3rd quarter of the 20th century. Over a deep blue fied surrounded by a dorder made…
Aït Wauzguit carpet – Ref PERLP194 – SOLD
This is a rather small Aït Wauzguit carpet, where this origine often used to produce long narrow pieces to fit their reception rooms. It is woven using nice mountain wool…
Azilal carpet with mountains – Ref O1124
This so called “Azilal carpet” actually originates with the Aït Bou Guemmez or Aït Bou Ouli berber tribes, settled in high valleys of the central High Atlas, south of Azilal.…
Aït Wauzguit hanbel – Ref M0706
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…
Tadla carpet _ Ref Z0221 – SOLD
This carpet originates in the Beni Mellal region and the Tadla; it displays a design made of multicolored hexagones spread over an equally multicolored series of stripes. Totally open, with…
Ait Bou Guemmez carpet – SOLD
“Et quoi au-delà?” Large and beautiful Aït Bou Guemmez carpet, using handwoven wools for pile and warps over cotton wefts. The idea of the square grid reminds of the simple…
Ourika hanbel – Ref L0507
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…
Aït Tamassine carpet – Ref D1102
This carpets was woven by Aït Tamassine people, a berber tribe belonging to the Aït Ouaouzguit confederation and living in the Jbel Siroua, south west Morocco. It is woven using…
Sektana hanbel/carpet – Ref D1103
This rug comes from the Sektana people, a berber settled in the north-eastern part of the Anti Atlas, in south western Morocco. Diverse and numerous vivid colors are typical of…
Sektana hanbel/carpet – Ref G1005
This long weaving is a hanbel from the Sektana people, living in north eastern Anti-Atlas, neighbours to the Zenaga tribe. Very limited, hence rare, their production of rugs and hanbel…
Ait Sgugu carpet – SOLD
Here is a carpet from the small Ait Sgugu berber tribe, settled in central Middle Atlas. The field of this carpet displays an orange abrash made according to the use…
Beni Mguild carpet – Ref W0104 – SOLD
Here is another Beni Mguild carpet: when the first one displays a field with a losangical grid, this one shows ( more visible on the reverse side) a number of…
Beni Mguild carpet – Ref W0103 – SOLD
This carpet finds its origin with the Beni Mguild berber tribe in central Middle Atlas south of Fes in Morocco. It is entirely made of hanspun wools and knotted using…
Aït Bu Ichauen asachu – Ref I0806
This is an “asachu”, a large weaving meant to cover the stacking of carpets, blankets and bags assembled in the center of the Aït Bou Ichaouen tent, separating the reception/men’s…
Ancient Ourika carpet – Ref M1011
Ourika berber rug, from Sidi Fadma. This rug is most probably of an ancient type, even though not very old itself. It uses a limited number of colors, geometric elements…
Ourika carpet – Ref N0802
Here is a marvellous and exceptionnal rug coming from a village in the High Atlas mountains above the Ourika valley, south of Marrakech. The carpets from this origin mix little…
Rehamna carpet – Ref B0111 – SOLD
This is a very nice Rehamna main carpet, dating back to the 1950’s and coming from the Hauz of Marrakech. Tent rug, it is quite Land woven using the symetric…
Aït Tamassine carpet – Ref T1101
Dating back to the 1950/60’s, this superb vintage Aït Ouaouzguit carpet originates more precisely with the Aït Tamassine, a berber tribe living in eastern Jbel Siroua, close to Anzel. It…
Bujad carpet – Ref Y0111 – SOLD
This carpet belongs to the east end of the vast plain ranging from the Atlantic ocean to the Middle Atlas, with the Hauz of Marrakech on its western side. A…
Hauz of Marrakech carpet – Ref Z0218
We are here facing a carpet originating in the eastern end of the Hauz of Marrakech, close to the Tadla plains. The carpets of that region belong to people whose…
Kilim/ Hanbel from the Demnate area – M0708
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…
Wauzguit carpet from Jbel Sirwa – Ref S0801
“Wauzguit parade” This carpet definitely belongs to the Wauzguit people living in the Jbel Sirwa in south western Morocco. Woven using nice and silky wools, with rows separated by more…
Brown azilal carpet – Ref S0216
This is a vintage Aït Bou Guemmez or Aït Bou Ouli carpet; but very unusual. Those tribes commonly produce white carpets with dark designs; this carpet is a kind of…
Tadla’s Plain carpet – Ref Z0219 – SOLD
Here is a nice little carpet originating in the Tadla plain. East of the Hauz of Marrakech, and north of the High Atlas. Woven using various types of fibers, all…
Azilal carpet with multicolored segments – Ref Z0225 – SOLD
This carpet comes from the mountains above the Azilal city, woven by Bou Ouli ou Bou Guemmez people, whose carpets are traditionnally of black designs over a white field; here…
Beni Alaham carpet – Ref R0416
This is a carpet from the Beni Alaham, a tribe of berber people, neighbours to the Beni Ouarain. Their carpets are fairly close to the Beni Ouarain carpets, for both…
Aït Bu Ichauen carpet – P0827
This superb Aït Bou Ichaouen carpet is typical from this berber people. They used to live under tents in the far eastern High Atlas of Morocco. This rug is woven…
Azilal berber carpet – Ref R0114
This Azilal carpet is either an Aït Bou Ouli or Aït Bou Guemmez berber tribal carpet. It comes from high valleys in the central High Atlas. The theme is fairly…
Ourika carpet – Ref Z0222
This carpet shows a typical Ourika design, as per its origin, while retaining only one theme that additionnally is simplified, leading to a very graphic and elegant result. It is…
Demnate carpet – Ref N0214
This is a very unusal berber carpet originating in the Demnat area, in the central High Atlas. It displays strong vivid colors, much appreciated by local populations, mixed with some…
Tadla’s plain carpet – Z0220 – SOLD
Here is another carpet from the Tadla region in central Morocco. As many other such carpets, it draws its architecture and elements from ancient arabic and berber themes. These have…
Bujad carpet – Orange and white – Ref Y0113 – SOLD
This carpet is woven using handspun wools knotted over industrial wool wefts and rag warps. This Bujad carpet displays an abrashed field hold within a white frame of undyed white…
Aït Wauzguit/ Makhlef carpet – Black carpet – Ref Y0114
Unusual black “glaoua” carpet most probably from the Aït Makhlef tribe in Jbel Sirwa, south western Morocco. It is woven using handspun wools over coton warps. This glaoua carpet…
Striped Azilal carpet – Ref Y0116 – SOLD
Here is a superb Bou Ouli or Bou Guemmez carpet. It originates in the mountains just over the city of Azilal down the northern slopes of the central High…
Azilal carpet – Green and grey boats – Ref Z0224 – SOLD
Here is an elegant rug originating with the Ait Bou Ouli or Ait Bou Guemmez in the high valleys of the central High Atlas of Morocco. Over a white open…
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Tapis d’Azilal
Un autre très beau tapis des Aït Bou Ouli ou Bou Guemmez, tribu berbère du Haut-Atlas central. Sur des chaines de coton, il associe des trames de laines naturelles et…