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Akal$1,667 USD

Chocolate · Round · 8 FT · Medium 0.8" pile · With tassels

Akal Round Sculpted and Mosaic Beni Mrirt Rug

$1,667 USD

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About this rug

Cracked earth, frost caught in the seams. Akal is earth in Amazigh; this sculpted Beni Mrirt round rug brings that ground inside: plates of raised wool, the cracks carved to the base. Weavers once knotted the field plain, from memory. Zarbish carves it now.

The cells here are blockier, like cobbles, and the channels between them are wider than on the straight-sided shapes, so the circle reads as paving. Each block has a soft top and a sharp carved edge.

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How we made Akal

Cracked earth, frost caught in the seams. Akal is earth in Amazigh; this sculpted Beni Mrirt round rug brings that ground inside: plates of raised wool, the cracks carved to the base. Weavers once knotted the field plain, from memory. Zarbish carves it now.

Dry plum-brown earth cracked into polygons with white salt lines, the inspiration for the Akal Chocolate rug
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