Tamda Diamond Beni Ourain Rug

Dark rock ridges, snow in the gullies. A tamda is a mountain lake, and this diamond Beni Ourain rug holds one: a deep diamond, a band of shore around it. Weavers once held lake and shore in memory. Zarbish makes it now.

Tiny flecks of a brighter fiber are mixed into the deep field, and they catch the light one at a time as you move, like mica in dark rock. The pale band has a slight sheen of its own, so the two surfaces answer each other.