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Akal$1,667 USD

Coral · 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

Clay plates split, pale at every rim. Akal is earth in Amazigh; this sculpted Beni Mrirt round rug brings that earth inside: plates of raised wool, the cracks carved to the base. Weavers once knotted the field plain, from memory. Zarbish carves it today.

The raised blocks are set on the diagonal across the circle, so the channels between them run as two sets of crossing lines, and each block throws a small shadow on its lower side. The binding cuts the outer blocks.

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The story

How we made Akal

Clay plates split, pale at every rim. Akal is earth in Amazigh; this sculpted Beni Mrirt round rug brings that earth inside: plates of raised wool, the cracks carved to the base. Weavers once knotted the field plain, from memory. Zarbish carves it today.

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