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Even though I love carpets, there are certain now very heavy trends with carpets that I do not like at all.
Beni Ouarain carpet. Image borrowed from the internet.
One is the Beni Ouarain carpets. Long-haired, wool carpets from Marocco. Some decades ago this kind of carets sold really cheap. Not so today as they have become a trend. You see them in a lot of interior design reports, magazines and blogs. People seem to love them dearly… If you do a Google search on images on “Beni Ouarain” you will see more examples of them. Usually they are off-white with a black, simple pattern that can vary from design to design and it usually has fringes. Most look homemade/handmade, not done in a factory, but lately they have started to appear also as factory-made carpets with this kind of pattern and look.
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Pillow with same pattern. Image from Tygbloggen from Ohlsons Tyger.
Then there is this pattern (above). Suddenly appears on carpets and other textile objects just everywhere. Am I tired of this pattern? Oh, yes.
Another trend for carpets that has been around for a while is layering. That is, you put carpets on carpets on carpets in layers…
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Above a nice kelim carpet on top of a a carpet of another carpet of natural fibers. I do not see the point in the layering… not unless you have very cold floors. Below is another example of this kind of layering.
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And this, below, another example which I can actually accept as the carpets are of similar kind and similar color and therefore make up a unity. The danger of tripping is still there though as always with layered carpets.
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Then there is the trend I dislike the most: patch-work, where they take patches of carpets and sew them together. I wrote about this here already on November 16th, 2011.
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Personally I prefer simple rugs, put on the floor one by one and not layered. And I love kelims, as long as they are not done as patch-work…
Patch-work kelims. Image borrowed from the internet
For more of what I love when it comes to carpets, see my Carpets board on Pinterest.
