Berber Wool Pile Carpet

Two mountains, a scatter of white dots, and the color of very good weather.

This pile carpet is Berber, from the Middle Atlas mountains of Morocco, and dates to the 20th century. It is knotted wool. Middle Atlas weavers are known for thick pile carpets and for designs drawn from an abstract private vocabulary of lines and marks. Pale blue covers the whole ground, a little darker in soft drifts. Thin white lines form two peaks below and a branching shape above, among scattered small squares and diamonds. It measures 8.3 feet wide and 11.8 feet long.

One suspects bare feet were the intended audience.