Naima Morelli

While these tapestries were once diminished by academia and the avant-garde as mere “womanly craft,” contemporary artists from the Maghreb region in Northwest Africa are transforming the medium in ways that both honor and update longstanding traditions.

Many grew up around looms and recall their grandmothers’ hands on raw wool, their mothers’ crochet, or the cooperative workshops in their region. They attend to the labor, gestures, and knowledge that lived in the bodies of their women ancestors.

Finally, biennales, fairs, and museums around the world are starting to catch on.

Here are five of the most exciting contemporary artists inspired by Moroccan rugs and North African weaving.

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