Cream and walnut runner, 2m × 0.6m
By Fatima Ait Ali · Aït Hadiddou, Middle Atlas, Morocco
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A long runner I finished last month. Cream wool from the village with a walnut-dyed brown border. Two simple diamonds along the centre. Made for a hallway but it would also work at the foot of a bed.
Eight weeks on the loom. Wool is undyed; the brown is walnut hull. I did the warp myself in early March.
The person who made this.
I have been weaving since I was twelve. My grandmother taught me, then her sister taught me the patterns my grandmother did not know. I work on a vertical loom in the room behind my house. Most rugs take me between six and ten weeks depending on the size and the knot density. I work in undyed wool from the village and dye the colour myself with madder, indigo, and walnut. I do not weave the same rug twice. If you collaborate with me, you will tell me what room it is for and I will weave you something only you have.