Vintage Hand-Knotted Carpet BB6220 6'5" × 11'0" $8,000

Vintage Moroccan Rug, Origin: Morocco, Circa: 1950, a mid-20th century vintage Moroccan rug. This astonishing example of Moroccan vintage rug symbolizes the genuine culture of the North African Berber people. The pattern represents their natural environment of Atlas Mountains where clear outlines of mountain peaks in dark brown are set against the purple background with delicate shades of orange.

All the colors are obtained from natural organic dyes. It is made using ancient weaving technique of one single knotted line and one or two woven lines. This vintage rug, like every other Moroccan antique rug, tells a unique story of thousand-year-old civilization through the choice of colors, signs and symbols. Here tradition mixes with personal improvisation of the weavers presenting work so primitive and exceptionally suggestive at the same time.