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Every price here was set by the group that made the piece. Nobody marks it up in between.
A rag rug, in the most literal sense, and the least apologetic one. The material is whatever was to hand, which is why a single piece can run from candy pink synthetic through faded cotton to a strip of somebody's jumper.
That constraint is also the reason they look the way they do. A weaver working from a limited pile of scraps cannot plan a symmetrical field, so the composition is improvised as the material runs out and is replaced.
There is no repeatable colourway, because there is no dye lot — the palette is whatever entered the house. Buying a Boucherouite is closer to buying a painting than choosing a product: the one you are looking at is the only one.
If you want a particular palette, that is a commission rather than a search. The cooperative can weave to your colours using dyed yarn from the Fes studio.
For decades these were dismissed as poverty craft, which kept prices low and kept the money away from the women making them. They are now collected seriously, and the sensible response is to make sure the weaver is the one who benefits from that change rather than the dealer who spotted it first.
WHO WEAVES THIS
Different cooperatives hold the same tradition differently — in how tightly they knot it, which wool they use, and what they charge. These are some of the groups weaving this work now.
NOT QUITE RIGHT?
Every piece here can be commissioned from the same cooperative that wove the original, in the dimensions you need, with the yarn dyed to order in Fes.
