Moroccan Rugs

This rug was red once. Decades of light and use have taken it somewhere better — a soft faded terracotta that lightens to salmon in places and holds a deeper brick in others, never quite settling on one tone. Against it the weaver set...

Stripe after stripe, nine feet of them, in navy and charcoal and cream and every grey between. None of them are the same width. Some are barely a finger across, others four times that; they thicken, thin, wobble slightly off true and occasionally dissolve...

A red with something dark moving through it. Look closely and you will find fine charcoal fibres running across the whole surface — in streaks, in flecks, gathering in some places and thinning in others. They give the red a grit and a depth...

Diamonds inside diamonds inside diamonds, radiating out from the centre until they run off the edges. Down the middle, four solid lozenges interrupt the pattern — turquoise, then a diamond split gold above and coral below, then slate grey, then pale ice blue —...