Vintage Moroccan Beni M'Guild Rug, Circa 1980, 6'1" X 10'3"

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You can tell a rug that was loved in daylight. This one was not kept for the cold months and … Read more You can tell a rug that was loved in daylight. This one was not kept for the cold months and rolled away in spring; it stayed down through the long dry summers above Khenifra, when the doors stand open from May to October and the light comes in flat and hard across the floor by four in the afternoon. She had made it bright. Green and blue through the whole field, and somewhere a band of rust she must have argued for. Forty summers have taken the shout out of those colours and left a murmur, a soft sea-green gone grey at the edges, with the old tones showing through like a conversation in the next room. The pile has gone a little low where the family sat, which is how you know where the family sat. It does not ask for attention now. It gives a room its floor and lets the furniture do the talking, and then one evening, with the lamps low, you notice the rust again.

Beni M'Guild, Middle Atlas, Morocco. Hand-knotted wool pile on a wool foundation, circa 1980. 314 x 186 cm (10'3" x 6'1"), about 14 kg. Medium pile, even wear, no holes or repairs; colours softened by age as described. Cleaned and ready for the floor. One of a kind, no two alike.

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