Akal Sculpted and Diamond Beni Mrirt Rug

Cracked earth, frost caught in the seams. Akal is earth in Amazigh; this sculpted Beni Mrirt 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 deep cells are cut apart by pale channels, so the lattice reads as light lines on a dark field from a distance and as deep gaps up close. The long diamonds in the upper half are the largest cells, and the smallest are near the foot.