Tamda Round Diamond Beni Ourain Rug

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

The deep field is the same inside and outside the pale band, and the band runs around the center diamond as one ring, so the rug reads as a single dark surface with a line cut through it. Up close the dark wool is warm rather than cold.