Carpet of Life

Nomadic Berber families in and around Morocco have made Boucherouite carpets since the 1960’s. The craft relies on instinct and experience rather than tradition, with motifs and patterns derived from nature as well as the fives senses. Boucherouite carpets can be made from pretty much any textile product including discarded clothing, yarn, tea towels, and bed linen. Many nomadic families in the Sahara region have been forced to end their nomadic tradition due to economic, political and environmental hardship. One company is fighting against this negative spiral. A social design company called Butterfly Works collaborates with local women across six villages in the Sahara, on the border of Morocco and Algeria, to create boucherouites under the name “Carpet of Life”.

With little access to local materials, Carpet of Life encourages customers to co-create thier own boucherouite from damaged and outgrown clothing and textiles. Textile remnants are mailed to the studio in Belgium, where they are transported to Morocco, and the skilled women of the Taragalte project who carefully shred and knot them into a unique Carpet of Life, documenting the process en route.

Website: www.carpetoflife.com

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