Taznakht

High Atlas, Morocco

On the southern slopes of the High Atlas, Taznakht and its surrounding villages evolved as a caravan crossroads linking Berber, Arab, and Saharan exchange. This history seeded a repertoire that masters both pile rugs and flatwoven kilims (hanbel), each with distinct architecture and purpose.

Taznakht is renowned for luminous vegetal dyes—saffron yellow, madder red, indigo blue—colors that refract desert light and oasis greens. Fields often carry lozenge chains, stepped medallions, and lattice frameworks, encoding fertility, protection, and tribal identity. Kilims express the same grammar through fine tapestry weave and graphic precision.

A Taznakht rug is a fragment of the caravan age: resilient, symbolic, and spiritually geometric—a living manuscript bridging the Atlas and the Sahara.