The word boucherouite comes from the Moroccan Arabic “bu sherwit”, roughly “a piece of torn cloth”. In the countryside, from the second half of the twentieth century, when wool became scarce and expensive, Amazigh women began weaving with whatever was at hand: old clothes, sheets, fabric offcuts. Each strip is cut, sorted by colour, then knotted on the loom. Nothing is drawn in advance; the composition is born as the weaving goes. An act of recycling long before its time, now an art in its own right.