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15 March 2024 · 8 min read
Reading a Berber Rug
On the secret language woven into every piece
The woman who wove your rug was also its author. There was no designer upstream, no pattern prescribed by a merchant or copied from a textbook. She worked from memory — from a visual vocabulary accumulated across a childhood watching her mother and grandmother at the loom, from h…
20 January 2024 · 6 min read
The Seasonal Carpet
Why every rug from Cosyrac has a summer face and a winter face
It is one of the most practical ideas in the history of textile craft, and one of the least known outside of Morocco: the reversible rug. Not a rug that merely has a serviceable reverse — most knotted rugs do — but a rug conceived from the beginning as having two faces, each comp…
5 November 2023 · 10 min read
The Dyer's Garden
On vegetable dyes and the chromatic intelligence of the Atlas
The Moroccan dye tradition is one of the oldest and most sophisticated in the world. Before the introduction of synthetic aniline dyes in the mid-nineteenth century — which spread to Morocco through European trade by the 1870s — all Moroccan textiles were coloured with substances…