Boucharouite

Name: Boucharouite
Brand: Anou
SKU: 20701
Price: 24 USD
Availability: InStock

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SIZE

60cm x 52cm x 2cm — 2ft x 1ft 8in x 1in

WEIGHT

1200 g

MATERIALS

Cotton and Rag Fabric

PRODUCT ID

#20701

Despite its modern chic appeal, the Boucharef carpet is woven into traditional Atlas Mountain culture. When poorer families were low in supplies during a cold winter, they washed and tore up old clothing to furnish their homes. Fortunately today, the carpet carries on in tradition rather than in necessity.

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Handmade by 1 member of Cooperative Azta

GHannou Mahboub

Ganou Mahboub treasurer of the cooperative was born in 1965 in skhirat mastered the craft of weaving where she learned on the mother's hands have not been studied married mother of six sons and one girl

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