Ethnography & Crafts · Medina
Boucharouite Museum
Rugs made from old clothes, that nobody took seriously
About the place
When wool ran short, country women cut worn clothes into strips and knotted them on the loom: that's boucharouite, from the Arabic word for "rag". For a long time the souks didn't want them, too poor, too odd. Then New York galleries took an interest in the 2000s, because of the kinship with abstract painting. Patrick de Maillard opened this small riad in 2014 to show a hundred of them, hung like canvases, along with dolls, kitchen objects and folk art. It's a neighbourhood museum, in Azbezt, far from the groups; the woman who runs the rooftop café will tell you the story of each piece if you ask.
Don't miss
- 01Boucharouite rugs from every region
- 02Objects and folk art from the countryside
- 03Occasional weaving workshops
- 04Rooftop café
Visiting tip
Closed Sundays. Combine with the House of Photography five minutes away, then get lost in the derbs of Azbezt, the most genuine quarter of the northern medina.
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