Vintage Moroccan Beni M'Guild Rug, Circa 1980, 6'9" X 10'7"

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Spring arrives on the Beni M'Guild plateau all at once, as if someone had opened a door. One week the … Read more Spring arrives on the Beni M'Guild plateau all at once, as if someone had opened a door. One week the fields are brown and sodden from the thaw; the next, the barley is up and the poppies are in it, a red so loud against the dark trunks of the cedars that the eye cannot leave it alone. This rug is that week. Woven around 1980, it is a big, dense, heavy thing, twenty-four kilos of wool, red and orange held in place by lines of near-black, the lattice tight and certain. A rug of strength, not delicacy. A rug made by a woman who had come through a long winter and wanted colour on the floor.

The pile is still thick. The reds have mellowed into the depth of old wine, the black has gone softly brown, and the whole field has taken on the warmth that only years can give. It anchors a big room the way a hearth does.

Beni M'Guild, Middle Atlas, Morocco. Hand-knotted wool pile on a wool foundation, circa 1980. 323 x 206 cm (10'7" x 6'9"), about 24 kg. Thick pile, even wear, no holes or repairs; colours mellowed by age. Cleaned and ready for the floor. One of a kind, no two alike.

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