Beni M'Guild, c.1980

408 × 187 cm13.4 × 6.1 ft

€5,000

GLB-101805

Ships from Marrakech in 3–5 business days.

Only one made. Hand-knotted once, for a household, never reproduced.
Chosen in Marrakech. Seen, measured and photographed by us, front and back.
Rolled and insured. Worldwide, with the duties explained before you pay.

Size: 408 × 187 cm · 13.4 × 6.1 ft
Pile: High
Age: Vintage
Material: 100% wool
Condition: Very Good
Made: By hand, on a vertical loom, once. Small irregularities in the edges and the pattern are part of it.
Reference: GLB-101805

Hand-knotted in Morocco from mountain wool and found in the valleys where these traditions live, not in a factory and not made to an export size. The slight irregularities are the weaver’s hand; the softness is the years. No two were ever the same, and this one is now yours alone.

The women of the Beni M'Guild, an Amazigh (Berber) confederation near Khenifra, weave a dense, deep-coloured pile rug that carries the same name as their tribe.

Origin. Beni M'Guild confederation, Middle Atlas (Khenifra), Morocco

Technique. Pile-knotted; deep pile on wool foundation

Palette. Burgundy, madder red, saffron, and a blue close to indigo, worked over ivory

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Vacuum gently and without a beater bar. Rotate periodically for even wear. Blot spills immediately, never rub. Professional cleaning only; these are natural-dye wool pieces and should never be machine washed.

A natural wool rug ages into its character. Minor shedding in the first months is normal and settles with use.

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Also in: Rugs for the living room · Extra-large rugs, 4 metres and more · Vintage Moroccan rugs · Beni M'Guild rugs · Colourful rugs · Thick, soft rugs

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The story of this rug

Three Fingers Deep in Red

Red for the wedding, red for the cold,
red for the long nights with the door barred.
Three fingers of wool between the body and the stone,
and four metres of it.

Measure the pile with your hand and three fingers disappear. That is how the Beni M'Guild built a rug for the worst of the winter, when the stone floor of a mountain house takes the cold up through your bones and the only answer is wool, and more wool. This one is over four metres long and knotted in a red that the family would have kept for the great occasions, a wedding, a birth, the first night of a new house. It would have been rolled out for the guests and rolled up again, and only slowly, over years, become the everyday floor.

It has kept its depth. The red is rich and even, the pile stands up after a footstep, the wool is soft the way only old mountain wool goes. A rug of this scale and weight asks for a serious room: a long drawing room, a hotel lobby with one good sofa, the ground floor of a house where everyone gathers.

Handwoven rugs grow in beauty, memory, and value with every passing year.