🧶 The Colorful World of Boucherouite Rugs 🧶
Anyone familiar with the art of Moroccan rug making has likely noticed the emergence, in recent years, of a Berber rug called Boucherouite or
Boucherouite : an artwork created from fabric and clothing scraps. This style of rug, more avant-garde in nature, bypasses the traditional fabrication and weaving techniques of Berber rugs, as well as the use of traditional materials like sheep wool.
- Boucherouite Rugs: A Unique Artistic Expression of Moroccan Rural Tribes
The Boucherouite rug, considered a decorative object born from "poor art," emerged as a result of economic, social, and cultural changes in rural areas of Morocco. The shift from nomadic herding to settled agriculture and other modern forms of employment gradually made raw wool, traditionally used for domestic rug making, scarce and valuable.
As a natural response, the Boucherouite rug, which means "rag" in Arabic, came into existence.
This Berber rug is relatively recent, developed in the 1960s and 1970s within modest households in the plains of Morocco, particularly near the cities of Beni Mellal and Boujad.
Unlike traditionally knotted Berber rugs before the 1950s and 1960s, which exhibit distinct regional styles, it is challenging to determine the true regional origin of Boucherouite rugs based on specific technical or stylistic characteristics.
Since the 1990s, the production of Boucherouite rugs and Berber blankets, using diverse substitute materials and a style liberating itself from traditional patterns, has been embraced even by Berber tribes farther from the mountainous regions of the High and Middle Atlas.
- Crafting Boucherouite Rugs: A Unique Approach
When focusing on the unconventional materials used to make these rugs, which, like traditional rugs, were initially created for domestic use without commercial intentions, Boucherouite rugs reveal incredible vitality and singular creativity that demonstrate an evolution in Moroccan textile culture.
Moroccan weavers craft these Berber rugs using recycled materials, fabric strips, and threads mixed with a wide variety of worn clothing and textiles such as wool, cotton, synthetic fibers, lurex, and nylon.
Color choices are made spontaneously, resulting in relatively spontaneous designs that can be multicolored, symbolizing the memories of Moroccan women and serving as an unconscious reminder of the past.
Boucherouite rugs are an explosion of vibrant and warm colors, reflecting the delicacy and sensitivity of Berber weavers.
These weavers do not seek to imitate or reproduce elements from their surrounding nature but create based on their inner feelings.
The Boucherouite rug is not merely a rug; it is the culmination of abstract artistic expression, representing the weavers' perception of sensations.
The composition of Boucherouite rugs features a creative interplay of various abstract patterns, shapes, and vivid colors, resulting in orderly or vibrant and colorful ensembles.
The most characteristic and, at the same time, bewildering Boucherouite rugs are those without a specific motif or easily identifiable pattern.
The rug's surface is covered with shapes blending into one another, enlarging lines, unstable zigzags, changing color contours, narrowings, and widenings, in which something entirely unrecognizable seems to emerge.
What often surprises about these rugs is the contrast between the recycled textiles and humble materials used in their creation and the incredible richness of the composition.
A marvel of Berber art, the Boucherouite rug stands out not only for its authenticity and aesthetics but also for the sincerity it emanates.
- Boucherouite Rugs : Unquestionable Artistic Wealth
With undeniable artistic richness and created without any preconceived sketches or predefined patterns, Boucherouite rugs can be used in various ways : Laid on the floor or displayed on the wall, resembling an artist's masterpiece.
All Boucherouite rugs offered by Passion Berbère are authentic and unique, as they are made without prior preparation or established designs.
The Boucherouite rug brings poetry to your interior with its deconstructed motifs, whimsical charm, and vibrant colors. As a joyful ethnic patchwork and a genuine work of art.
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