Musee Boucharouite

This guide to the Musee Boucharouite in Marrakesh follows the French collector Patrick de Maillard, who spent years buying carpets in the bazaars around the city with plans for shows in Paris and London. Weighing whether to sell his own riad, he looked again at a pile of rugs the market barely valued, stitched by Berber women in the High Atlas from flour sacks and worn djellabas. The women who made them, mostly unable to read or write, wove their lives into the thread instead, using color and shape as a private language. Climb to the terrace above the galleries, where the call to prayer drifts over the medina rooftops.