Traditional Moroccan Rugs

Traditional Moroccan Rugs are Hand-knotted rugs decorate your home with luxury and culture like nothing else. The Berber women from Morocco wove them back in 622 AD. Their craft was highly valued and used in sacred places and palaces.

Later, the Eastern Tribes started to make these Beni rugs professionally as presents for high-class families. The wool was collected from the Atlas mountain sheep and spun by hand from yarn. Sometimes camel's hair was used as an alternative to sheep wool.

The beauty of Moroccan rugs was so captivating that there was a superstition that the rug's beauty would invite evil spirits. To protect the rugs from the evil spirit, the makers used to burn the rugs' edges.