Moroccan Wool Pile Rug

Magenta, at thirteen feet, is not a suggestion.

This wool pile rug comes from Morocco and dates to the late 19th or early 20th century. In Morocco, women wove thick pile rugs like this for their own households, as bedding and floor covers against the cold, as well as for display. Here, rows of pale zigzags ripple down a field of magenta and pink, shifting from saturated to faded along the length. Small lozenges gather at one end. Plain flat-woven bands in straw color run along both sides, and thin stripes mark the top edge. Seventy-five inches wide and 163 long.

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