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Rabat Knotted
500 years in the making, Rabat is our evolved revival of the R’bati carpet, a hyper-fine point knotted style with roots that date back to Morocco’s palatial interiors of the early 19th century.
500 years in the making, Rabat is our evolved revival of the R’bati carpet, a hyper-fine point knotted style with roots that date back to Morocco’s palatial interiors of the early 19th century.
Constructed from the highest quality fine wool, rugs born from the Rabat method consist of 64 knots per square inch versus the 12 knots of a shaggy Atlas design.
The intricacy of this added effort allows for more creative liberty within the rug’s decoration, reorienting possibility and expectation.
An evolved revival
An evolved revival
Our take on this technique made its debut in the spring of 2025 with the release of Intersection, a collection of ten rugs designed by Paris and Marrakech-based architecture firm Studio KO. Bound by themes of time and record-keeping, these designs transposed artifacts of industrial society into meticulously handcrafted Moroccan rugs.