San Francisco’s Tribal & Textile Arts Show added an exclamation point to my weekend and gave me a new piece of vocabulary: Boucherouite, Morocco’s unique incarnation of the rag rug. The Austrian gallery Blazek had a booth full of amazing Moroccan carpets at the show, along with literature about Boucherouite. Click here for their write-up on the art form, and for additional images.
Alberto Levi (previously posted about here) was also at the show and is another source for carpets of this kind.
[...] here for an earlier post on Morocco’s rag [...]
so fascinating how marginalized people create dazzling visions from post-colonial waste. these remind me in a sense of the hangings of Ghanaian master El Anatsui — who creates enormous hangings out of the flattened metal neckbands off liquor bottles. closer to home, my fave is Suzan Friedland of San Francisco, who gets scrap wool from the Pendleton mill and grafts in stuff like rusted grates, abandoned wire, homeless rusted nails, bent metal and a paper wasp’s nest she found in Golden Gate Park.
the ANTHROPOLOGY shops are exhibiting since september a large collection of “rag rugs” from Morocco called “boucherouite” . To visit