Rug with Crescendo Pattern
N°
00860
Period
Circa 1950
Origin
Boujad, Southern Middle Atlas, Morocco
Materials
Wool
Status
Available
Size
280 x 160 cm9'2" x 5'3"
The weaver here created a sort of musical score on a theme of only four colours. She begins with an orange colour background, abandoning it soon in favour of a soft terracotta. She keeps accenting with touches of lemon yellow, albeit more sparingly as she progresses in her genius composition. Her main theme is a crescendo pattern of what is initially a honeycomb arrangement of diamonds, which gradually expand differentially in size, blossoming into an oversized network of irregularly shaped lozenges, either randomly filled or half-filled with ivory or black or simply framing the background. The pattern achieves balance only at the end, reassuring us with its more regular cadence.