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Guild Moroccan Carpet with Modern Style
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About the Item
20431 Vintage Beni MGuild Moroccan Rug Runner, 03'00 x 07'02. Bathed in embered light and woven with the quiet pulse of the Middle Atlas Mountains, this hand-knotted wool vintage Beni M’Guild Moroccan rug is a tapestry of warmth, mystery, and memory. Like the glowing horizon of a sun setting over terra cotta hills, its palette radiates in smoldering tones of carnelian, rust, tangerine, and deep garnet, interspersed with flickering trails of charcoal black and earthy olive. The transitions are painterly, almost as if the weaver dipped her brush into the land itself, allowing the hues to dissolve and bleed like flame into twilight. This is a Moroccan rug that does not merely rest on the floor, but pulses with the vibrant spirit of the highland looms that gave it life.
Created by the hands of Berber women from the Beni M’Guild tribe, this textile speaks in a dialect of abstraction—where symbolism is not rendered in strict geometry but felt through form and hue. Toward one end of the rug, two angular black motifs emerge like ancient trees, tents, or gestural figures, rooted in tradition but free in their expression. They rise like ideograms from a sea of red, suggesting stories of hearth and home, fertility and protection, or perhaps spiritual guardians peering into the world of the living. These esoteric motifs, rendered intuitively rather than uniformly, are part of the weaver’s personal cosmology—sacred signs passed down through generations of oral and woven storytelling.
The thick, luxurious pile, woven entirely from wool, once served as protection against the harsh mountain winters. In traditional Berber households, rugs like this were used as bedding and blankets as much as art objects—warm, intimate companions woven from the wool of sheep raised in the very same valleys. The density and resilience of the pile, combined with its luminous surface abrash, attest to both the rug’s functional roots and its place in the evolution of Moroccan tribal art. Each hand-spun knot bears the quiet labor of time and tradition, grounding the rug’s bold visual rhythm in a deeply tactile history.
Today, this Beni M’Guild rug resonates far beyond the mountain village where it was born. Its fiery palette and abstract soul evoke the emotional charge of Abstract Expressionism, while its irregular forms nod to a design ethos that values imperfection, intuition, and authenticity. Whether draped over a modern bench, adorning the floor of a sunlit studio, or hanging on a wall as woven sculpture, this rug carries with it not just the artistry of a distant place, but the enduring warmth of its weaver’s hand and the whispered echoes of her mountain home.
Abrash.
Hand-knotted wool.
Made in Morocco.
Berber Tribes of Morocco. Beni M'Guild.
Measures: 03’00 x 07’02.
Date: 1960's. Mid-20th Century.
- Creator:Berber Tribes of Morocco (Weaver)
- Dimensions:Width: 36 in (91.44 cm)Length: 86 in (218.44 cm)
- Style:Spanish Colonial (In the Style Of)
- Materials and Techniques:Wool,Hand-Knotted
- Place of Origin:
- Period:
- Date of Manufacture:1960-1969
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use. Abrash.
- Seller Location:Dallas, TX
- Reference Number:Seller: 20431 Vintage Beni MGuild Moroccan Rug, 03 00 x 07 021stDibs: LU94297348403
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