Posts Tagged ‘berber’

Beautiful mini Berber rug for sale

Saturday, October 16th, 2010

Over the years we’ve built up a stock of carpets and rugs that we somehow can’t fit into the house…so we’ve had the brainwave of selling them!

This one’s a real beauty – small but perfectly formed at 70cm x 46cm. As you can see, there’s a bit of an animal theme going on; it’s a real work of art, and gorgeously handwoven. It’s mainly creamy-white, with an array of colours and motifs woven in.

It could make a really nice wall-hanging, and would look fantastic framed behind glass.

Price: £80 plus postage/packing. Contact us for more details and photos.

Antique Berber door

Sunday, October 11th, 2009

This set of doors, a beautiful example of Berber design, was found in the hills outside Taroudant in the south of Morocco.

The Berbers’ design vocabulary includes magic numbers, magic squares, verses from the Koran, Arabic script, geometric shapes (triangles, squares, crosses, eight-pointed stars, six-pointed stars, spirals, circles and diamonds), as well as motifs representing plants, flowers, humans, eyes and hands.  Berber designs are often valued for the ‘baraka’  (spiritual power) they contain…and we reckon these have bucketloads of the stuff