The Fascinating History Of Berber Rugs
While a lot of people have heard of Berber rugs, they generally don’t know that those rugs were named after the tribes in Northern Africa that initially started making them & continue till date. Of course, there’re fake Berber rugs readily available in the market, but they can’t match the quality of authentic ones handcrafted by authentic Berber . The Berbers have lived in the Middle & High Atlas Mountains for several years before the Arab invasions in the seventh century and still live there at present. The rugs they made were used for everything from burial blankets, cloaks, and even mattresses. They came in different colors, styles, waves and patterns relying upon which tribe & family crafted them. The wool was taken from the family ship & then hand-crafted into different thickness of fibers. Later, the fibers were dyed in many traditional colors employing dyes from formulas passed on for hundreds of years. The dyes came from many diffe...