Trend alert: Woollen Berber rug
Berber rug here, Berber rug there.. You've probably heard of a woollen Berber rug! But, what exactly is this? We'll explain it to you in detail in the blog below! Read on!
Woollen Berber rug
A woollen Berber rug is often confused with a Kilim rug. As the name suggests, a woollen Berber rug was originally made of wool, which is why this type of rug feels wonderfully soft. But it's not just that a woollen Berber rug is super soft – due to the natural material, the rug is also lovely and warm in winter, yet cool in summer. This is because wool has insulating properties. As a result, you benefit from your woollen Berber rug all year round. Perfect! Originally, a woollen Berber rug comes from Morocco and is centuries old. Originally, a woollen Berber rug was used as protection against moisture and cold.
Low-maintenance rug
A woollen rug Berber is very popular in households with small children because of wool's dirt and water-repellent properties. After all, when did you last see a soaking wet sheep?! Moreover, wool is a super-strong material, so it doesn't break easily and is very easy to maintain.
Affordable woollen Berber rug
As extensively described above, an original woollen Berber rug is made of wool. But such a woollen Berber rug can easily cost hundreds, if not thousands of pounds. That's why Volero offers a wide range of synthetic imitation variants of a woollen Berber rug. Synthetic wool is just as easy to maintain as real wool, but makes a woollen Berber rug much more affordable. Because an original woollen Berber rug was made of natural wool, these rugs are only available in a limited number of colours. Today, synthetic variants come in all sorts of colours, from white to ochre yellow and multicolour.
Weaving technique Berber rug
A woollen Berber rug is a high-pile rug. Original Berber rugs were hand-knotted in the North African mountains. You can imagine this is an enormously large, time-consuming job. That's why production was outsourced to countries with cheap labour. Modern variants are still hand-knotted, but machine-made in a factory. This means a woollen Berber rug is ready faster and can therefore be offered at a lower price. Win-win!
Do you want a nice Eastern rug, but are you looking for something different than a woollen Berber rug? Then check out the large collection of Persian rugs.
