Taghardait (Ghardaïa's own Mozabite-language name, applied by extension to its craft output); the general Amazigh weaving art is called azetta
Hand-knotted and flat-woven goat-wool and sheep-wool carpets produced by Mozabite women of Algeria's M'Zab Valley (Ghardaïa Province), an Ibadi Muslim Berber community distinct from the Kabyle Amazigh of northern Algeria. Carpets are characterized by bold geometric patterns on warm earthy palettes — reds, browns, and occasional blues in fine examples, or more vividly colored yellow, pink, and green variants — reflecting Ghardaïa's traditional emphasis on order, harmony, and collective identity, and used in both ceremonial spaces and domestic ritual. The craft follows the broader Amazigh weaving process of wool preparation, communal loom assembly, and hand-knotting or flat-weaving, but the M'Zab region's weaver population has suffered a severe, well-documented decline: from an estimated 6,000 weavers in 1893 to under 1,500 by 1955 and barely 1,000 by 1970.
Risk level: Critically Endangered · Not independently inscribed as an intangible element; the M'Zab Valley itself (Ghardaïa Province) was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1982 under tangible cultural heritage criteria
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