Vintage Moroccan Beni M'Guild Rug, Circa 1980, 6'9" X 12'

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Five centimetres. Press your hand into it and your fingers vanish. This is the deepest pile the Beni M'Guild make, … Read more Five centimetres. Press your hand into it and your fingers vanish. This is the deepest pile the Beni M'Guild make, and they make it for one reason: February, on the high ground, when the drifts come up to the window sills and the house is a cave of wool and smoke and breath. A rug like this is not laid down. It is slept in. The whole family on it in a row, the youngest in the middle, the old ones nearest the fire, and the purple so thick it holds the heat of a body for an hour after the body has gone.

She worked pink through the purple in drifts and ran a single seam of orange along it like a coal kept alive under the ash. Twenty-one kilos, and nearly four metres long. Forty winters have made the wool softer without making it thinner, which is the gift of a deep pile. It needs a big room and a floor that is used for living, and someone who understands that the best place to read is lying down.

Beni M'Guild, Middle Atlas, Morocco. Hand-knotted wool pile on a wool foundation, circa 1980. 367 x 206 cm (12' x 6'9"), about 21 kg. Very deep pile (about 5 cm), even wear, no holes or repairs; colours softened by age. Cleaned and ready for the floor. One of a kind, no two alike.

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