Rug Margoum Azid 128x200 cm
- Width
- 128 cm
- Length
- 200 cm
- Color
- Red White
- Compositions
- Wool
- Type
- Margoum
- Origin
- Tunisia
- Use
- Medium rug Bedroom/Living room
Tunisian Margoum carpet from the city of Kairouan. Unique piece handmade by a skilled craftswoman.
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Rug - Margoum / Mergoum - Certified "First choice" by the National Handicrafts Office of Tunisia.
This is a unique piece that will bring a tasteful decoration.
Did you know? The Margoum is a type of rug that is only made in Tunisia. It is a city rug handmade by the craftswomen from the cities of Kairouan, El Jem and Oudhref.
The margoum is a rug both woven and embroidered which gives it a smooth appearance decorated with reliefs. The mixture of its wool weft and cotton warp makes it a rigid and solid rug.
The margoums are always decorated with diamond-shaped motifs which symbolize fertility. However, there are no two identical margoums.
Here is the meaning of the main symbols of the Rug Margoum Azid 128x200 cm :
Note: Originally, the symbolism of Berber signs refers mainly to life, the fertility of the couple and the fertility of the land. Over the centuries, the meanings have often evolved or overlapped.
Red
The colour red has a prophylactic character in ancient Berber traditions: its strength and brilliance protect against accidents and diseases; it is the universal vector of the principle of life.
The central medallion
The central medallion symbolises the gestation and the progressive enlargement of the woman's belly when the sides of the diamond or hexagon are multiplied.
The rhombus
The diamond is the Berber carpet pattern par excellence. It appears on almost all Berber carpets in the Maghreb, whether in Tunisia, Algeria or Morocco.
Meaning 1: The diamond is an ancient Berber feminine symbol that represents woman and her beauty. It represents the womb of life, the uterus or the woman's body as a whole.
Meaning 2: The eye or the mirror: what reflects or allows one to see.The representation of the eye is in the Berber culture a way of countering the evil eye. In the same way, the mirror reflects the evil eye against itself.
The zigzag
The zigzag is one of the most present Berber signs on Tunisian and Moroccan carpets.
Meaning 1: Male symbol of fertility and fecundity.
Meaning 2: Image of water, symbol of life and matrix of existence. Image of the waves of the generating sea or of the lightning bringing rain.
Meaning 3: Image of the serpent that represents the lunar seasons and represents by its moult the renewal of life and the resurrection of nature, the cycle of seasons full of promise. The snake also represents the union of the opposites male and female, sky and earth, night and day...
The chevron
Meaning 1: the movement of water, the primordial element of life.
Meaning 2: the woman ready to conceive.
Data sheet
- Width
- 128 cm
- Length
- 200 cm
- Color
- Red White
- Compositions
- Wool
- Type
- Margoum
- Origin
- Tunisia
- Use
- Medium rug Bedroom/Living room
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