Afghan war rug. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 68°F. ... It’s hard to judge what these rugs will be worth or how the iconography will evolve in the coming years.

Amid piles of flowery and geometric carpets in an Afghan shop sits a pink rug picturing a... Afghan 'war rugs' help struggling economy SF Gate Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

Afghanistan has suffered through decades of war. The modern history of violence has seeped into the nation's ancient art of rug making — rugs now feature imagery of tanks, AK-47s and U.S. drones.

Peering at a Baluchi rug made in Afghanistan or Pakistan, one can see flowers, trees, mountains–and a rifle. It’s possible to spot a helicopter between two mountains. But what about tha… ...

When Canadian curator Max Allen wanted to put on an exhibit of Afghan war rugs in 2008, he had to buy most of them himself on eBay. “Here’s a show where I can’t tell you where the rugs are from.

Surprisingly, a renewed interest in Afghanistan pushed the orders up, especially following the arrival on the market of a new set of rugs, depicting the attacks to the World Trade Center.

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.

Such rugs are readily available on eBay and were – until recently – sold by souvenir sellers in Kabul and Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan’s cities with the largest number of foreign workers and ...

The rug designs tend to contain symbols – AK-47s, 9/11 and drones – that reflect an outsider’s understanding of war. Kevin Sudeith, courtesy of WarRug.com, CC BY-SA ...

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 ...

Afghanistan has suffered through decades of war. The modern history of violence has seeped into the nation's ancient art of rug making — rugs now feature imagery of tanks, AK-47s and U.S. drones.