Untangling Threads: Women Artisans in Morocco’s Rug Weaving Industry

Opening Wednesday December 1, 2010 and running through Saturday January 8, 2011 is an exhibition of both aesthetic attention and political significance. The art of Moroccan weaving is one known far and wide, in both the context of a culture driven by spiritual meditation and the mentality of a people for whom perseverance is a circumstantial human condition no subject to denial. Who are the weavers today in this mystical North African artistic climate? Women. This project, Untangling Threads: Women Artisans in Morocco's Rug Weaving Industry, offers the viewer a glimpse into rural Moroccan life as it documents the life, culture, and craft of female weavers, while specifically focusing on artisans from rural weaving communities in the Middle and High Atlas mountains. In the photographs you see confident Amazigh Moroccan women who defy the stereotypes painted by the Western media. In the rugs you discover the dexterity of the weavers' fingers, the boundaries of their imagination, and the antiquity of their craft. With this Untangling Threads reveals the faces and the hands behind the handicraft of weaving in Morocco. www.untanglingthreads.kantaracrafts.com