Chapter 03 · Field Atlas Looms, dye-chords & the matrilineal ledger
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Insight · 03

After four field seasons across the Atlas and Anti-Atlas, one pattern refuses to flatten:

A rug is not a tribe's logo — it is one woman's autobiography, woven in the chord her mother taught her.

Average motifs per rug, by sub-tradition

N · 412 rugs · 14 villages
Boujad cohort (focus tribe) Other Amazigh sub-traditions Beni Ourain — the disciplined outlier
87%
+14 pts y / y of rugs sampled carry at least one motif unique to the weaver

Where the saffron chord lives ⴱⵓⵊⴰⴷ

  • Boujad foothill plain 41.2%
  • Aït Khebbach Anti-Atlas 23.8%
  • Marmoucha cedar plateau 19.5%
  • Other cooperatives 15.5%