North African Tapestries

A very finely woven wool veil used as a head scarf in the wedding ceremony among the Ait Abdallah Berber people of the Moroccan Anti-Atlas region. The pattern is obtained with the re...

A pair of hand woven African tapestries of camels and humans. The tapestries were hand woven in the late 20th century in Tunisia, North Africa. The African Hand Woven tapestries depict a camel with human forms around it. Although the design is the same, each tapestry has a different color scheme. It would be ideal as a pair of wall art. Dimensions: 10” x 16” (Each) Date of Manufacture: 4th Quarter of the 1900s Place of Origin: Tunisia, North Africa Material: Wool pile on a cotton foundation Condition: Good The Persian Knot, SKU: 2275 African Village Tapestry, Tapestries from Africa, African Folk Art, Art of Africa, African Weavings, Vintage Handwoven Tapestries, African Tapestries, African Folk Art, African Weaving Art, Large Wall Tapestry, Handwoven Tapestry, Modernist Tapestry, Mid Century...

Perhaps inspired by the renewal of ancient weaving traditions undertaken by the Ramses Wissa Wassef workshop in Egypt, among others in North Africa, this marvelous Mid-Century tapest...

19th century ancient Egyptian cloth fragment.

This is a semi-antique pictorial Egyptian Kilim woven during the first quarter of the 20th century circa 1920 and measures 177 x 144CM in size. Its desi...