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Rough with the smooth - Deep-pile rugs would seem to hold little sway with the sleek, hard-edged aesthetic of the Modern Movement. But with their graphic-abstract patterns, the homespun creations of the Beni Ouarain tribe of Morocco indulged the underlying primitivist proclivities of all the modern masters. Jeremy Melvin explains
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