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Alwan$1,667 USD

Coral & Rust · Round · 8 FT · Shag 1.2" pile · With tassels

Alwan Round Mosaic Moroccan Rug

$1,667 USD

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ColorCoral & Rust

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About this rug

Coral and near-black blocks in a checkerboard. Alwan means colors in Arabic, plural, and this checkered Berber round rug says nothing else: big blocks of flat color, one against the next. Weavers once tied boards like it from memory. Zarbish knots it now.

The blocks are rectangles of different lengths set loosely, with a light column running up through the middle of them, and two deeper blocks placed just off center. Nothing lines up with the edge, so the circle reads like a window onto a larger pattern.

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How we made Alwan

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A checkerboard of coral and black salt blocks seen up close, the inspiration for the Alwan Navy & Coral rug
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