AphroChic Magazine: Issue No. 11
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Culture<br />
Abstract Works of Self-Expression<br />
Moroccan rag rugs, better known as Boucherouites,<br />
are unique among the many rugs made by the<br />
women of Morocco’s Berber or Amazigh tribes.<br />
While rug weaving has been both an honored<br />
necessity and a high art among the Amazigh<br />
people since time immemorial, the creation of<br />
Boucherouite rugs is a fairly modern art by an<br />
ancient people.<br />
It was members of the Lamtuna Amazigh that<br />
founded Morocco in 1070 AD with the building of<br />
Marrakech. From there they established the vast<br />
Almoravid empire which not only encompasses<br />
large portions of the Maghreb, but essentially<br />
all of Andalusian Spain, stretching as far north as<br />
Zaragoza. Today, Amazigh tribes reside largely in<br />
the Atlas Mountains, away from Morocco’s major<br />
cities.<br />
Words by Bryan Mason<br />
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