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Aadya Bazaar

Vintage Moroccan Wedding Blanket. Handira. Wool & Cotton Sequined

$0.00 $240.00

Aadya Bazaar

Vintage Moroccan Wedding Blanket. Handira. Wool & Cotton Sequined

$0.00 $240.00

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A wonderful composition of line and texture. The most beautiful understated yet fanciful of practical warmies!! These are called Handiras or Moroccan wedding blankets. They are woven as a dowry for brides. This one is made of handspun wool and cotton with lots of large wonderful metal sequins. The handira makes a lovely jingle when handled.

These are great as blankets, throws, wall hangings, or thrown over a headboard. Ive got one on the end of my bed, one as a throw on my couch and one as a wall hanging!

This one is in very good vintage condition.

size is 48 x 75”

A Handira or Tamizart is a throw used for warmth and special events. The white/cream coloured Handira is woven for weddings, often decorated with countless metal sequins (mouzouns in Arabic). I’ve been told that a mother begins to weave a wedding blanket when her daughter is still very young. The girl grows up getting familiar with her wedding blanket as part of her dowry and her duties as a married woman.

Moroccan wedding blankets are woven in natural undyed wool and cotton, often decorated with woven pattern bands of very pretty and colourful talismanic symbols. The numerous sequins give the Handira the finishing touch but are not solemnly esthetical. They are considered to ware of the evil eye and to protect. They also reflect the sun light during the day and the glow of fire at night.

A bride wears her Tamizart as part of her dowry when she is carried to the house of the groom. According to old tradition it is highly unusual that the bride walks, she is carried on the back of a mule to her new home. During this journey a small procession of family and friends of the bride sing about her dowry and the gifts that she brings for her new family.