Vintage Moroccan Beni M'Guild Rug, Circa 1980, 6'3" X 15'1"

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Thirty kilos. That is what this rug weighs, and you feel every one of them the moment you try to … Read more Thirty kilos. That is what this rug weighs, and you feel every one of them the moment you try to move it. Somewhere in the cedar country of the Middle Atlas a woman set out to weave the longest piece her loom would hold, four and a half metres, and she used everything: the red she had boiled for a daughter's trousseau, the purple that is the Beni M'Guild's own, oranges, greens, a dark ground to hold them. It is not a pattern so much as a season of colour, band after band, each one a decision. The pile has worn to a comfortable two centimetres, dense and even, and the colours have settled together the way old friends do.

It wants a long room: a hallway in a townhouse, a studio, the run between kitchen and garden door. Nothing else on the floor will be necessary.

Beni M'Guild, Middle Atlas, Morocco. Hand-knotted wool pile on a wool foundation, circa 1980. 460 x 190 cm (15'1" x 6'3"), about 30 kg. Medium pile, even wear, no holes or repairs; colours softened by age. Cleaned and ready for the floor. One of a kind, no two alike.

Ships rolled and insured from Marrakech, delivered to your door; the price includes shipping. See less