Having a Marokkaanse wollen tapijten at home is bringing into your home a little gleam of this beautiful country that makes the soul grow. It's true, the Moroccan Berber carpet is loaded with stories and emotions.

The Boucherouite tapijten in general, but more particularly the real Moroccan Berber carpet has a flawless and unparalleled reputation!
Wool carpets, Berber carpets also known as "North African carpets", convey the name of the region, the ethnicity, the tribe and therefore the country in which they were designed. As such, you should know that true carpet connoisseurs can precisely define:

- The age of a carpet.
- Its place of manufacture thanks to the patterns, colors, twisting method (twisting of the wool), number of weft threads that are visible on the back of the carpet, according to the dyeing processes used.
The ancestral art of Berber weaving was awarded in Morocco, thanks to the Beni Ourain tapijt whose patterns express the same already used in the Neolithic era. We recognize a real Berber carpet of Moroccan wool according to:
- It's material: knotted, woven, embroidered it is in very soft and extra-virgin wool extracted from a breed of sheep from the Middle Atlas.
- Its color, natural ivory for the Beni Ourain Marokkaanse tapijten carpet and / or for other types of carpet often dominated by red, orange, black, white, yellow tones.
- Its knotting knowing that a craftwork must necessarily demonstrate small irregularities that will be noticed on the back of the carpet.
- Its barn or fringe finishes which are at one end of it. For the history of the carpet, it is obvious that the domestication of the sheep plays an important role in the art of Berber weaving.
- In the Berbers, the work of wool goes back several millennia, at the origin and using saponaire plant, the women washed the wool of sheep in the river.

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It is not uncommon in mountainous rural areas that these traditions continue and it is precisely in these specific regions that the most beautiful Marokkaanse Azilal-tapijten is found.

We can distinguish symbolic Berber motifs or signs, ornaments that often have to do with rites, beliefs, a way of thinking and therefore all the imaginaries also linked to this Berber culture.

The weaving know-how is transmitted from mother to daughter, from generation to generation, the works are often woven on the same looms.

Originally, Beni Mguild tapijt was mainly intended for domestic use and, in the Berber tradition, they were also integrated into the dowry of marriage, similarly, according to the economic vagaries of households, the carpet has always been and is still a value certain economic.