Berber Wool Pile Carpet

Deep blue, shaggy, and crossed by white lines that never quite agree.

This pile carpet is knotted wool, woven by Berber peoples in the Middle Atlas, Morocco, North Africa, 20th century. Berber women of the Atlas have long knotted thick pile rugs for warmth, often with loose geometric lattices that are drawn freely rather than ruled. Here, narrow ivory lines wander across the field in irregular elongated diamonds. The blue shifts in soft horizontal bands from pale to nearly indigo, and the pile looks long and dense. Pale fringe trails from one end. Nearly ten feet wide and just over thirteen long.

A map of nowhere in particular, and easy to get lost in.