Morocco Berber carpets

Carpets in general :

Carpet is a soft floor covering made of bound carpet fibers or stapled fibers. Carpeting refers to wall-to-wall coverage, whereas a rug is simply used to cover a space. This type of flooring is typically used indoors and can be used in both high and low traffic areas. It typically lasts for 15-18 years before it needs to be replaced. The quality of a carpet is usually measured in face weight, or how many fibers there are per square inch. The higher the face weight the more plush a carpet will feel.

Carpets come in a variety of materials including wool, nylon, olefin and polyester.

woman makes a berber carpet

History of Berber carpets

The beginnings of the Berber carpet, its motives goes back very far. It does not come from Oriental carpets of the Islamic era, but the similarity of the technique of knotting and certain motifs indicates common roots, probably dating back to the Neolithic of Asia Minor. Away from the great civilizations of Antiquity and far from the cultural exchanges of the Silk Road,

the Berber carpet has kept its originality in the mountainous regions of the Atlas and the Atlantic plains.

Berber carpet is the most beautiful and famous think you can get like souvenirs from your trip to Marrakesh .the carpet is hand maker of Berber women living in the atlas .

one of the famous think that the women product in the highest mountain in morocco,

The carpet is an object of art based on ancestral knowledge of the peoples who have, throughout history, expressed their knowledge through decorative means, sculptures, poems, drawings, colors, etc. ...

The carpet is therefore an artistic object made in families of great pastoral tradition and who live in general of the breeding and the agriculture, thus of the rural families. The manufacture of traditional carpets, in all their forms, requires the presence of certain conditions, means and basic material including :

- pure and healthy wool, as a raw material that will be transformed into yarns of various sizes and properties, natural dyes (see "The art of weaving")

- a suitable material (loom) of different shapes, depending on the desired use (see "The art of weaving")

- Knowledgeable staff mastering traditional weaving techniques and decorative patterns.

Carpet weaving

Carpet weaving is an essential activity in some settings because it plays a vital economic role in the livelihoods of families. It is then part of a traditional marketing mode, based on barter. In a household, men and women work in cooperation. The woman takes care of the weaving and modeling of the carpets and the husband takes care of the marketing in the weekly markets, and makes, on the other hand, the purchase of the food products and other products which they need to live.

duration of work for a single carpet:

A good carpet can count up to 480'000 knots per square meter and can require up to nine months of work, for example a Taznakht carpet, a Berber lockstitched model with natural colors such as saffron, henna, mint and others.