Amid piles of flowery and geometric carpets in an Afghan shop sits a pink rug picturing a Kalashnikov rifle framed by hand grenades. Another shows planes hitting a World Trade Center overlaid by ...

COLUMBIA, PA — Orientiq, a new store specializing in hand-woven oriental rugs, has officially opened its doors in Columbia, Lancaster County. The grand opening celebrations took place on ...

He opened Kapisa Rugs, an Evanston rug store, in March of 2020, and began selling hand woven carpets imported from a number of countries, including Iran, Turkey and Afghanistan to accomplish those ...

They are hand-woven by Hazara weavers and the couple brought them in their suitcases from Afghanistan to the U.S. in 2017. Marisa Peñaloza hide caption toggle caption ...

Rugs woven by Afghan women who've lost their jobs in the public sector. ... By selling traditional Afghan rugs in Japan, ... My goal is to one day hand this store down. 25:33. 7:00 p.m. closing time.

In nine Afghan villages this year, 43 women used new looms to weave their magic for an unlikely customer far away — the world’s largest office furniture company, Steelcase Inc. Their creations ...

So in the 1980s, when the Mujahedeen were fighting back the Soviet occupation, some local weavers abandoned flowers and water jugs to illustrate what their days consisted of back then: war. “My ...

Zulmai, an Afghan Carpet seller, displays his "war rug" featuring a variety of weapons to Army Lt. Col. Chris Kubik at his shop in Camp Eggers, the U.S. base in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, March 12.

At first, the fringed rug seems much like any other woven Afghan textile. Large birds -- some flying east, some west -- are woven into a pungent red background and framed by a floral border in ...