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Adding some ethnicity to your home’s interiors by using furniture, furnishings, and rugs is one method to brighten the atmosphere! Over the past several years, decorating homes in ethnic styles has become extremely popular. Sensing the interest in original tribal art from various places around the world, even big stores for example Target have been known to launch complete furnishing lines that reflect a certain culture or region including Indian or Japanese home furnishing lines.

Just about the most popular emerging styles is Moroccan, especially in the rugs and carpet industry. Hand-woven Moroccan rugs are a fantastic way to invite warmth and make a bright and charming atmosphere in your home.

Moroccan rugs have already been infusing the magic of color and art to the homes of millions over the world. Moroccan rugs and art happen to be widely attached to the west and examples of this can be observed in Bauhaus movement or even in the works of American designers like Billy Baldwin during the 1960’s and 1970’s.

The straightforward geometric patterns of Moroccan rugs have already been used for long to lend a fashionable, urbane and sophisticated turn to most of the modern furnishings. The famous pile carpets from your Middle Atlas Mountain region of Morocco are proudly displayed in renowned historic houses for example Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic Fallingwater and Charles and Ray Eames spectacular Pacific Palisades house in California.

Along with the late 1990’s, Moroccan rugs revival was imminent as designers and public showed a renewed interest for aspects of the 1960’s and 70’s era in terms of style and color. Bright and warm hues of oranges and saffron yellows reflecting in Moroccan rugs geometrical patterns were scene stealers. Moreover, these rugs are made from spun wool and had an authentic indigenous character which makes them ‘one-of-a-kind’ with a quality that was hard to find in their synthetic factory made modern cousins.

Moroccan rugs were and being produced by the Berbers, who’re an indigenous tribe of North African region residing in Morocco. These weavers use hand-dyed wool to weave the rugs and each rug is different in its design, use of colors, and patterns. The designs of Moroccan rugs tend to be similar to those perfectly located at the weaving of Indigenous peoples.

Another type of Moroccan rugs are ‘kilims’ or ‘hanbels’ though they are lightweight, flat in weave and motifs are created with variations of red, blue, green, yellow, mauve and white. The price of
Beni Ourain rug and kilims are usably dependant on the size, quality of the design and the colors used.