Tanit
An old North African sign — a triangular figure with a horizontal bar and a round head — that appears widely across the region on stone and persists in Amazigh textile borders, jewellery, and tattoo to this day.
The Tanit sign is a stylised figure — a round head, horizontal bar arms, and a triangular body — that appears on stone objects across North Africa from around the 5th century BCE, and that has persisted in the region's material culture for a very long time since.
The sign survives in Amazigh jewellery, tattoo patterns, and textile borders, not always identified by name but present in the vocabulary of protective marks. A related angular figure turns up in kilim traditions further east, from Anatolia through Central Asia — a visual family more than a documented line of descent.
Tilwen's logomark uses the Tanit form with a squared, geometric body that references the diagonal logic of kilim weaving.
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