MOROCCO: BERBER TRADITION

These Berber wedding blankets are adorned with hand applied sequins. I love the crafty glamour and wish I picked one up!

According to Apartment Therapy, "Known as Moroccan wedding blankets, handira are woven out of sheep's wool, cotton and linen by Berber women in the Middle Atlas mountains of Northern Morocco. It can take many hours — even weeks — of work to attach those hundreds of mirrored sequins once the weaving is complete. Almost Modernist in their restrained aesthetics, handira are neutral in color (though often accented with bands of kilim patterns), enlivened with rectilinear lines or boxes of texture. At the same time, the sequins lend a touch of glamour, and the texture and handmade feel of the blankets add a traditional exoticism."