Tirra Round Checkered Moroccan Rug

A coral fritillary, a checkerboard on every petal. Tirra is writing in Amazigh, and this checkered Berber round rug reads like a page: squares where the hand hurried, bars where it slowed. Weavers once kept the page by heart. Zarbish makes it now.

The blocks are shaped like crosses and squares that lock into each other, and they gather at the center and let go toward the rim. The last few sit alone on a ground that shades a little lighter as it reaches the edge.