Traditionally, carpet-weaving used to take place through contractors. The weavers were invariably exploited at the hands of contractors who gave them measly wages in return for highly-skilled labor.

Maryam Omar couldn’t help but cry as she walked into the Weaving Poems exhibition at last year’s Design Doha. The British-Afghan artist had spent months designing the carpets on show, but because they ...

Tibetan carpet is a traditional handicraft from the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau with a history of about 3,000 years. In 2006, Jiaya Tibetan carpet weaving skills were inscribed into China's first ...

“Our mothers and our grandmothers worked at home to weave” these carpets, says the tribal leader, his beard speckled with gray. Lost language Soltani, 32, inherited his carpet shop from his ...

These rugs probe the aestheticization of war and the risk of defining a country primarily by its violent past and present at ...

Wafa, dressed in a clinical white coat and framed by myriad bottles and jars, is explaining the painstaking method of squeezing out argan oil. The technique is time-honoured in Morocco, and in this ...

Both in Afghanistan and in Pakistan, in the camps set up for Afghan refugees from the Russian, Taliban, and subsequent troubles, Afghan weavers continued to weave their histories into rugs ...

And as she sings, she weaves. She is weaving a carpet, and the loom takes up most of the room in which she lives during the winter. One of her finished carpets is hanging on the wall above her bed.

If bonding takes place at temperatures of a little over 100°C with only a small amount of water present, mistakes can be corrected during weaving. The result is the sought after magic carpet: ...