Moroccan azilal carpet 195x105cm

Azilal carpets or the Azilals, as their name suggests, come from the region steep Azilal, located in the remote and very difficult to access of the High Atlas mountains, South of the city of Beni Mellal. Exclusively for women in this region, Azilal carpets are made by alternating patterns consisting of a knotted line and one or two lines woven from raw wool, according to a cultural ritual passed down from mother to daughter for some generations. These are books where each rural woman in the Azilal region tells her story, the themes of the reasons being the rural life, motherhood, birth. The weavers so appropriated tribal signs of their ancestors to express their marriage, pregnancy, their daily lives. Azilal carpets show great creativity in terms of design, they combine abstract, and irregular grounds many Berbers symbols and graphics often herbal lozenges.